Show alligators Ti twenty venty kift lons iong alligators formerly on tt of tha chief animal life tenants of Rear dver and tho the bayous of 0 louisiana N bierei rii before steamboat navigation came to la in them thein they could be seen seea by hundreds huddled together ou on the 1 teuila fults I 1 or massed ou on the il floit lug or stationary stAtion aiT loss especially ot or rod hod river niter haklo the solitudes of the forest with their bull like bellowing their length 0 a 5 generally between bet Cou eight and belvo avri feet although they greva to be twenty feet long their bides were once used for or the te i making of shoos shoes but the leather not 1 M to I proving of sufficiently close texture i koop deop water out shoemaking from this I 1 material was abandoned I 1 |