A few weeks ago Janus made some observations about crocodiles
and the method of hooking them pursued in Tanganyika. This has elicited a letter from a writer in the next-door territory of Kenya who sends further information on the subject. " Unfortunately," he writes, " it is worse than mere hooking. The crocodile is too strong and too resistant to die or drown on the end of a hook, and he lives, thrashing about, half in the water and half out; until such time as the African employees of the firm concerned get round to clubbing or chopping him to death—sometimes 48 hours after he has been hooked." If this description is accurate, the Governments of Kenya and Tanganyika ought to do something about it. I know nothing about crocodiles, but I once spent some months in the society of alligators. can't say I grew to love them, but they never did me any harm, and although saurians are vermin, that is no excuse for killing them in such a cruel way.
Scam.
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