PERHAPS.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 15

PERHAPS.

The crocodile is such an awkward customer that people do not know him vory familiarly. Henco rumours are sent round about him that are not entirely correct. For instance, it has been said; that he cannot be tamed, and that be does not eat fish. But someone in Uganda, • British Bast Africa, says that in the Victoria Nyanza there is a: full-sized crocodile, about fourteen feet long, which comes out of the lake' at tho call of the native "boys," and is regularly fed— with fish. That seems to settle the two-stories. at once.- - However, the taming is not quite convincing. Certainly the old crocodile appears when, he iB called, but everybody'keeps * safe distance from the snap'of his jiws and-the range of his tail. ■He; alec eats fish. Tho native! gay that this crocodile grew up' in the' King's Lake at Kampala, where, .'b'lf ore civilisation entered Uganda,, a' foxiher king threw his prisoners, and people he did not like; but, aj that lake is seven miles, away from the great luke where the crocodile now is, it is unlikely that he journeyed that distant* when; the food supply failed in the Klng'sV'Lako; ■ Probably he is a Victoria Lake crocodile . that has acquired a'taste for,fish and has sense enough .to1 form, a. habit of feeding where food Js offered.