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SAVAGE SUDAN 
Not far from this point (about 5i° North latitude) 
I saw (in 1913) a crocodile bigger than any that appear 
even in dreams. The reptile lay sound asleep above 
a io-foot bank, head-on to the river, and our ship swept 
past within a few yards of its snout; but no time was 
given to seize a rifle ere the vision was lost to view among 
deep grass. In my diary the breadth of that beast is 
recorded to an inch , with an estimate of length; but 
I will not abuse credulity by giving measurements not 
verified on the tape-line. Still, the brute appeared to 
bulk almost as broad as a hippopotamus. 
“Taking the Morning Sun.”—Wood-Ibis. 
Hell’s Gate, March 8th, 1919. 
