Our canoe-men invariably picked up every dead fish they saw on the surface of the water, however far gone.

An unfragrant odour was no objection; the fish was boiled and eaten, and the water drunk as soup.

It is a curious fact that many of the Africans keep fish as we do woodcocks, until they are extremely offensive, before they consider them fit to eat.
Our paddlers informed us on our way down that iguanas lay their eggs in July and August, and crocodiles in September.

The eggs remain a month or two under the sand where they are laid, and the young come out when the rains have fairly commenced.

The canoe-men were quite positive that crocodiles frequently stun men by striking them with their tails, and then squat on them till they are drowned.