He immediately feels the fish strike against the sides, and putting his hand down through the aperture in the top of the basket he captures him, and deposits him in a basket slung on his back.
These 'lola' are delicious eating, being very like an eel in flavour, and I have known one man catch forty in a morning with no other apparatus than this basket.
Minneria Lake, like all others in Ceylon, swarms with crocodiles of a very large size.

Early in the morning and late in the evening they may be seen lying upon the banks like logs of trees.

I have frequently remarked that a buffalo, shot within a few yards of the lake, has invariably disappeared during the night, leaving an undoubted track where he has been dragged to the water by the crocodiles.

These brutes frequently attack the natives when fishing or bathing, but I have never heard of their pursuing any person upon dry land.
I remember an accident having occurred at Madampi, on the west coast of Ceylon, about seven years ago, the day before I passed through the village.

A number of women were employed in cutting rushes for mat-making, and were about mid-deep in the water.