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the bank, and a sharp blow with an axe divided its spine.
When the crocodile was found to be dead without a doubt, its stomach was opened. Among other things, too horrid to mention, there were found, inside, two armlets and a necklace that had probably belonged to the
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negro girl who had disappeared so completely while washing in the river.
Further south still, beyond the great lakes, is the River Zambesi, whose branches swarm with alligators, a kind of crocodile, and quite as dangerous.
Fifty years ago, when Livingstone was travelling up one of these rivers, the Leeambye, which falls into the
