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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

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"'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.

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pered brute snapped about three where there were swollen new they, too, were soaked through and WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL

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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

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