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Darwin, Northern Territory. From Buffalo shooting, which they consider rather a tame way of earning a living, Messrs. J. Gaden and O. Jennings, of Territory. Darwin, Northern
have turned to crocodile hunting to make money during the wet season, when they can no longer hunt buffalo,
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So now, Instead of risking their lives in breakneck gallops after buffalo herds, shooting the beasts from horseback while on the run. and chancing a charge from a wounded animal or [broken neck should their horses stumble into a fuffalo wallow, these two men spend their days on a crazy paper bark raft in the middle of the West Alligator River, prodding the muddy depths for 18-foot monsters,
Though the crocodile Or "gater" as it is called in the
Shipwreck in Panama Canal
Colon, Canal Zone
The Dutch freighter "Brion", shown
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"I have never been in such wea-short of room there. You'll anore
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other living creature north of For six days the sky washed the at daybreak."
"'Right! Let's get a move on Bo the 28th parallel, the idea of earth and then washed it again. danger did not seem to have oc- The earth was softening and shift- far."
Ing, and filling up the holes and curred to Mr. Gaden.
went out again. What a downpour! We were wet past making new ones."
"Same here; it only stopped bearing. The water poured into "The only bit of excitement raining this morning,"
our socks through the boot-soles we had was when one bad tem- "It was just my luck. And every and by the trouser bottoms, and
"It is just as tame as buffalo shooting," he said.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1934.
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pered brute snapped about three where there were swollen new they, too, were soaked through and WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL
hands and faces and neeks.
feet off the corner of our raft in streams washing away the borders through up to the knees. Before We shot him in a few of the fields as though they were we got to this Pendu we met a one bite.. seconds."
lines on paper. There were hilleshadow in a big black cloak with n The West Alligator River, on that ran with water from top to lantern. The lantern was raised, the boundary of Arnhem Land, bottom. Guats of wind sent the and we
saw a gold stripe on the. is literally alive with crocodiles, rain in great clouds flying and sleeve, and then an angry face. ranging from 10 to 20 feet in whirling about, and lashing our "What the hell are you doing length.
there said the shadow, drawing The method Mr. Gaden uses to "So you bet, when I had tramped back a little and putting one fist on capture the brutes, whose hides to the station, if someone had looked his hip, while the rain rattled like|| will later appear as women's handbags and shoes, it to har nasty at me it would have been hail on his hood.
" "They're
men on leave for enough to make me turn back." poon them from the raft and
"But when we did get to the place Vauvelles-they can't set off again 21st Mar. then shoot them with rifies when there were several of us, somo to-night-they would like to sleep
they rush to the surface.
Unless their aim is accurate more men on leave; they weren't in the Pendu farm.'
"What do you say? Sleep here? they run the risk of being draghound for Villers, but they had to
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"I could make nothing of any-well-'You'd better clear off from
Hop thing. They've been worse shelled here in less than two seconds.
Mr. Gaden is also sending 1.0 Sydney several gallopa of
oil over there thon here, and then there ft!'
"So We right-about-faced and taken from the fat in the tails of was the water everywhere, and it
started back again, stumbling as if the crocodiles. He believes this was getting dark.
"I told you there are only four we were boozed, slipping, pulling. may be of commercial value ne
the little place, only splashing, and bespattering our- ench crocodile yields four gallons houses in
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"'Oh, we'll find somewhere, don't "It got so bad that we started to worry, for the little time we have to
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one little room to go round in and The "Cruzado" is a gold coin, dead.
"Our house in the third. It's on go round again-the only room inj with the face value of 400 excu- dos. They were not coined much the edge of the road that runs along the house, seeing that it isn't a after the date of those now the top of the slope. We climbed palace.
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A cellar melted down there are now few in the dusk almost blinking us our friends, "Isn't there examples in existence.
the cold and wel fairly smacked us here? in the eye, flop-and broke our
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Never! We won't let you go! it can't be done."
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