Show CARRIED OFF PREY FROM BOAT Crocodile Seized Sleeping Native Boy and Escaped Mr G C Irving having joined the Telegraph department left Sandakan by boat on Aug 8 to commence his duties du-ties on the rcntls at Slbuga and a letter let-ter has just been received from him detailing an experience ho had He and his party stopped at Nunoy an until 1 a m on the 9th They then started again and all was quiet until they were Just nearing Sibuga at 615 a m when suddenly the boat gave a horrible lurch and there was a most awful scream Mr Irving was sleeping sleep-ing but awakened with the lurch and scream to find his boy who was named Hajl Ham gone taken by an enormous crocodile The brute It seems first made a snap at the steersmans arms missed and Jumped half Into the boat and took tho poor boy by the leg It reappeared reap-peared for not more than half a second sec-ond and gave tho others no chance to shoot Mr Irving had a very narrow escape for he was lying within two feet of tho boy British North Borneo Bor-neo Herald |