BATHED WITH CROCODILE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12075, 14 October 1933, Page 9

BATHED WITH CROCODILE

How members of the Everest Expedition passed the waiting hours at Purnea, in the Himalayas, with sports and shared a swimming pool with a crocodile, was told by the Marquess of Clydesdale, at a luncheon in London. “I think the expedition was only made possible through sport./'' ho said. “A:t- Purnea wc kept- fit by playing football, hockey, tennis and goit. Playing football against Indians was remarkable. An Indian team challenged us, and they turned out- to play with bare i'eet. They are far quicker than we were on the ball, and they kicked equally hard- We were soundly beaten. But at hockey we managed to even things out. We had much swimming, which was not seriously handicapped when we found a croeodle in the same pool. It was quickly disposed of.” In certain districts in the Himalayas, he added, the natives had never seen, an aeroplane before. Alter the first flight an old man said to him, “I have iseen God.” "Then the news -spread that the devil in person had arrived and the natives scattered.”