They usually lie in wait for their prey under some hollow bank in a deep pool, and when the unsuspecting deer or even buffalo stoops his head to drink, he is suddenly seized by the nose and dragged beneath the water.

Here he is speedily drowned and consumed at leisure.
The two lower and front teeth of a crocodile project through the upper jaw, and their white points attract immediate notice as they protrude through the brown scales on the upper lip.

When the mouth is closed, the jaws are thus absolutely locked together.
It is a common opinion that the scales on the back of a crocodile will turn a ball; this is a vulgar error.

The scales are very tough and hard, but a ball from a common fowling-piece will pass right through the body.

I have even seen a hunting-knife driven at one blow deep into the hardest part of the back; and this was a crocodile of a large size, about fourteen feet long, that I shot at a place called Bolgodde, twenty-two miles from Colombo.
A man had been setting nets for fish, and was in the act of swimming to the shore, when he was seized and drowned by a crocodile.