The Nile crocodile of Africa is yet another deadly species.

And it is pretty certain that any crocodile, who has been regularly hunted through the season, and is master of the weight he carries, will take a six-barred gate now as well as ever he would have done in the infancy of the pyramids.

The cursed crocodile became to me the object of more horror than almost all the rest.

The crocodiles are animals which, as a group, have a very vast antiquity.

3. 4.] [Footnote 40: A crocodile in war, with Firdusi, is a figure of great power and strength.]

I believe it is generally understood amongst naturalists, that the crocodile is a blockhead.