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BABIES AS CROCODILE BAIT

... BABIES AS CROCODILE BAIT. Wanted, fat babies for crocodile bait. Will brought home alive. When I first saw this advertisement in Ceylon newspaper, says writer, I thought it was a joke, Afterwarda learned that it by tbit meant that the crocodile hunters ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1895
Newspaper: Bridport News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BABIES AS GROGIDOS BAT

... FOR DUSKY MOTHERS. A sailor who some years in Ceylon asserts that the Cingalese mothers regu larly hire out their babies crocodile bait These are his words: Baby bait is th only thing for crocodiles, and every bod uses it. You rent a baby down there fo two ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1911
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BABIES AS BAIT

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

Published: Saturday 20 April 1895
Newspaper: Christchurch Times
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BABIES AS BAIT

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

Published: Saturday 20 April 1895
Newspaper: Exmouth Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 224 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BABIES AS BAIT

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

Published: Friday 19 April 1895
Newspaper: Bridport News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BABIES AS BAIT

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

Published: Saturday 20 April 1895
Newspaper: East & South Devon Advertiser
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BABIES AS BAIT

... , for Ceylon parents, asa rule, have abounded confidence in the hunters, and will rent their babies out to be used as crocodile bait for a small consideration. Ceylon crocodiles, says an Anglo-Indian writer, prefer to lie q]uite still, soothed by the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1895
Newspaper: Sidmouth Observer
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 323 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... repetition of the crime, second judicial flogging is followed by exile I ifo from the piovince. 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 ...

ELECTION OF ST. IVES BOROUGH AUDITORS

... A 1 ■, r. lb,vie. Feb. BABIrS AS CROCODILE BAIT. A PROFITABLE PRACTICE FOB DUSKY MOTHERS A sailor who spent some years in Ceylon 1 asserts that the Cingalese'mothers rogu- larly hire out their babies as crocodile bait. These arc his words: Baby bail is ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1911
Newspaper: The Cornish Telegraph
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1005 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

V WEEKLY SUMMARY MARCH 10 1911 & QUERIES PETER PENN OF TREVITHICK (Concluded) accorded to Trevithick by toto ..

... previous competitions was 98 BABIES AS CROCODILE BAIT PROFITABLE PRACTICE FOR DUSKY MOTHERS sailor who spent some years in Ceylon asserts that the Cingalese mothers regularly hire out their babies as crocodile bait These are his words : Baby bait is the ...

Published: Friday 10 March 1911
Newspaper: St. Ives Weekly Summary
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 4819 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EDITION Newspaper H°' in best of the above in Thursday’s at Is Monday’s Stamps accompany trATtl:’Spply only Mr ..

... usual one evening in precisely the tern r was universal all the village themselves with accord to rid of this destroying crocodile Baits were along bank with keep for look for they might was to he Several days later the wife w her white on the river her slowly ...