Show A V SHOAL OF crocodiles 11 FRIGHTFUL experience OP OF A hustin VIT INDIA HE BE LOST HIS a one oae occasion I 1 was ascending ascend ins the e rangoon river with three nai natives tives the mail we were balled LI shore by an english hunter banter who been camp campin ing fr out oat among the fierce cl animals and poisonous serpents seventy days he was entirely ie e and he be had bad killed five leopards e tigers six or eight large lare serpents much other game ile he had bad several b h scars to prove a hand band to hand band diet with a wounded tier and the e fact of his bis betas baing al alone one in that ex exposed ed almost to every dan one could cou d dream of was proof that vas as a brave man e bad a raft at the bank and was ut to cross the stream after a t of a quarter of an hour boar we took in tow and dropped him down ut uta amile mile we had just aaa headed beaded for other bank when I 1 saw a large odile rise to the surface just bej the hunters raft the man had bad entered the boat with us up but bat was ing on b bis Is traps on the raft I 1 called i im to shoot the reptile and he be rose made as pretty a shot as one ever striking ng the saurian in the eve ing him at once we were ap ding the shot when a dozen of me e broke water all a boat about the we bad a towrope tow rope ropa about forty longani loa lon yand gand were its tall fall length a head ahead ie be raft none of the reptiles paid least attention to the apat but bat sned ed to make a closer ain tance with ith tte the raft be e hunter banter had bad a repealing rise rifle and tood on his bis fett iod and banned away kt t and left as coolly as you please ered the men to cease rowing rowine ind out my rifle but before I 1 had bad fired i 11 losle ingle shot a monster crocodile abed bed upon abe side of t he li light b t a boo craft and upset it we bag backed e d ler c r very rapidly and it was not over ty Seco luls wore belore the boat ml and raft had bumped at the same instant tha hunter ruse rose beside me lae boat and one of the natives pulled him in while he lay on the bottom of el the boat we rowed about and picked up sued of bis traps as were afloat it was very little we saved when I 1 to offer the man some some spirits his looks had changed so that I 1 could ac scarcely arcely believe he was the same man no one standing on the gallows callows trap could have been more broken up he had scarcely swallowed the whisky when he began to cry and he insisted that we cover him up in toe bottom of the boat it was a whole awhile fortnight before the mao man recovered his bis composure while his nerve wai gone forever ile he who had bad stood with knife ing the rush of a tiger ti gerand sed who carried marks mark to prove his elavery and his victory had bad been totally broken up by an experience of less than two minutes in the water with a dozen crocodiles it was t the th feeling that he be was helpless that took his hid courage away in the case of the tiger he be felt that he had some little show when he was flung into the water he realized that he had bad none indian nail mail |