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BABIES AS BAIT

... successful, fop Ceylon parents, rule, have abounded confidence in the hunters, and will rent their babies out to be used crocodile bait for small consideration. Ceylon crocodiles, says an Anglo-Indian writer, prefer lie quite still, soothed by the sun’s ...

Published: Friday 19 April 1895
Newspaper: Jarrow Express
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Strength of the Stag-beetle

... is made clear this story. sailor who spent some years Ceylon asserts that the Cingalese mothers hire out thoir babies crocodile bait. These are his words: “Baby bait the only thing for crocodiles, and everybody uses it. f« • baby down here for two shillings ...

Published: Friday 20 September 1912
Newspaper: Jarrow Express
County: Durham, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 753 | Page: 7 | Tags: none