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Show CARRIED OrTF PREY FROM BOAT. -11 Crocodile Seized Sleeping Native smsH Escaped. Mr. G. C. Irving, hnvlng joined tho rH Telegraph department, left Sandakan 'M by boat on Aug. 8 to commonco his du- H tics on tho rontls at Sibuga, and a let- H tcr hns just been received from him H detailing nn cxperlonco ho had. H Ho and his party stopped at Nunoy- " I ssssssssssssssssi an until 1 n. m. on tho fltli. They then H started again, and nil was quiet until , H thoy wero just Hearing Sibuga at G:15 I H a. m when suddenly the boat gavo a f H horriblo lurch and thoro was a mo3t "- J awful scream, Mr. Irving wns sleep- S M lng, but nwakenod with tho lurch and sH scream to find his "boy," who was I J named Hnjl Itatn, gono taken by an 1 enormous crocodile. 1 jHJ Tho bruto, It scorns, first mado a I snap nt tho steersman's arms, missed E HH and jumped half into tho boat and 1 HssBbI took tho poor boy by tho leg; It reap- ,1 hssssssssssssH pcared for not moro than half a sec- M rssssssssssfl ond nnd gavo tho others no chance to ijl IrssisLissssssI shoot Mr. Irving had a very narrow l rsssssssssH escapo, for ho was lying within two 4 BBrsH feot of tho boy. British North Dor- . I 9 neo f I Prssssssssssl |