... BABIES FOR BAIT. Wanted—Fat babies for crocodile bait. Will be brought home alive. When I first saw this advertisement in a Ceylon newspaper I thought it was a joke. Afterwards I learned that it was by this means that the crocodile hunters secured their ...

... without a doubt, lie’s got a village dozen miles or so up the river, and a couple of hundred fighting men. They’d make crocodile bait of us in short order, and come down and loot the factory at their leisure. No, force is out of the question. Diplomacy ...