... BAIT, A very startling announcement sometimes appears in the Ceylon papers This is what it says . Babies wan ted for a crocodile bait; will be returned alive 1 This sounds very extraordinary, and reminds ons of putting worms on to a fishing rod to catch ...

... taking itefC suppress ball-fighting Nimes. Princess Hnlene d'Orleans is presented with diadem costing trance, wanted for crocodile bait. b ...

... suppress bull-fightinc at Nimes. Princess d'Orlesus to be presented, with a diadem costing 80,000 francs. Babies wanted for crocodile bait. Will be* returned alive, says Ceylon paper. Amongst Sir John peisoaal friends art soldiers, sailors, lawyers, doctors ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... leisure great passion was acquire Eastern languages and to study Eastern religions his recreations were cock-fighting crocodile-baiting hawking and flirtation Romance the Orient There was something more than flirtation however in his relations certain beautiful ...