alone, though sometimes attacking canoes with very disastrous results. It appears to be not generally known that crocodiles perpetuate the species by laying eggs, about the size of an ordinary duck's egg, with very tough shells. These are laid in holes scraped in the sand, and hatched by the heat of the sun. A crocodile will lay from eighty to one hundred and twenty in one batch. Fortunately few of these arrive at maturity, as there are numerous birds, fish, and crocodiles awaiting the young when they emerge from the shells, but one can rarely go on the lake for even a very short distance without seeing crocodiles, and it is very inadvisable to bathe in shallow waters.
The natives on these islands are very clever at making canoes. People have an idea that because they are only sewn together these canoes do not last long. It merely means that they require re-sewing, for they are only sewn together with the fibre
