In Crocodile Land: Wandering in Northern AustraliaAccount of travels from north-east to north-west Australia fishing and crocodile hunting told in first person; includes observations and anecdotes of encounters with Aboriginals throughout. |
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... shot he staggered , his paw rising in a helpless sort of way . He collapsed on snout and chest . The aboriginals laughed and dawdled the dinghy towards the bank . But the crocodile wriggled convulsively forward and came slithering down ...
... shot he staggered , his paw rising in a helpless sort of way . He collapsed on snout and chest . The aboriginals laughed and dawdled the dinghy towards the bank . But the crocodile wriggled convulsively forward and came slithering down ...
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... shot . It had been all too swift for one thing ; but I wouldn't have missed that fight for anything . I did not see ... shot or trapped . Occa- sionally , also , one is shot that has had two or three feet of its tail chewed off . One ...
... shot . It had been all too swift for one thing ; but I wouldn't have missed that fight for anything . I did not see ... shot or trapped . Occa- sionally , also , one is shot that has had two or three feet of its tail chewed off . One ...
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... shot . It had been all too swift for one thing ; but I wouldn't have missed that fight for anything . I did not see ... shot or trapped . Occa- sionally , also , one is shot that has had two or three feet of its tail chewed off . One ...
... shot . It had been all too swift for one thing ; but I wouldn't have missed that fight for anything . I did not see ... shot or trapped . Occa- sionally , also , one is shot that has had two or three feet of its tail chewed off . One ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I UP SAIL FOR CROCODILE LAND | 1 |
THE CREW | 7 |
THE CREEK | 14 |
Copyright | |
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