Get me away quick, or I will tell your father." Thus adjured the boy, nothing loth, seized his oar, when suddenly the ancient crocodile, having swallowed the dove, thrust up its snout immediately beneath them and began to follow the boat.

Now Tua screamed aloud and said something about her Ka.
"Tell it to keep off the crocodile," shouted Rames as he worked the oar furiously.

"Nothing can hurt a Ka." But the crocodile would not be kept off.

On the contrary, it thrust its grey snout and one of its claws over the stern of the boat in such a fashion that Rames could no longer work the oar, dragging it almost under water, and snapped with its horrible jaws.
"Oh! it is coming in; we are going to be eaten," cried Tua.
At that moment the boat touched the landing-place and swung round, so that its bow, where Tua was, struck the head of the crocodile, which seemed to infuriate the beast.

At least, it hurled itself upon the boat, causing the fore part to heel over, fill with water, and begin to sink.
Then the little lad, Rames, showed the courage that was in him.