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on the watch for the eyes of crocodiles which with a reflector lamp look like red fire. Just as I was boarding the prahn I caught sight of one up stream a few yards. Tambie got his fish harpoon and we paddled to within ten feet of the brute when just as it went to draw down into the water, Tambie speared its neck. There was a swirl of water and a splash or two and we began to be towed up stream. The line to which the dart was fastened was heavy fish cord but very strong. After being towed about ^[[500]] yards, we began to drift down again and finally to come down stream quickly and then upon reaching the place from where we had started, the animal suddenly bit the cord and we lost the dart of the spear and 15 yards of line.

With another spear we paddled up stream for about a mile where we came upon a crocodile at the edge of the water. From the way the eye looked I had taken it to be a small one until within 15 feet I saw its body. I whispered to the men to "undor" (paddle) backwards but the animal heard me speak & turned around, but just as it did so I shot it in the neck and it floundered & splashed at a great rate. We harpooned it and towed it down stream. It is a narrow snouted one & good for its skeleton.

Friday, March 28, 1913.
"Sandaren Baagoe".

It stopped raining about 8:00 A.M. & we went after the deer and brought it to the edge of the river where I started the Baja[[strikethrough]]n[[/strikethrough]]^[[u]]s to skin it while Ah Sing & I went after the pig. The pig had been destroyed during the night by others of its own kind. The only hunting to-day was after a pig that came out on the shore to the east but did not get it. Go to bed about nine o'clock.