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The modes of catching the crocodile are many and various. I shall
only describe the one which seems to me most worthy of mention. They
bait a hook with a chine of pork and let the meat be carried out into
the middle of the stream, while the hunter upon the bank holds a living
pig, which he belabours. The crocodile hears its cries, and making
for the sound, encounters the pork, which he instantly swallows down.
The men on the shore haul, and when they have got him to land, the
first thing the hunter does is to plaster his eyes with mud. This once
accomplished, the animal is despatched with ease, otherwise he gives
great trouble.
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