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Saturday, May 15, 2021
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, March 3, 1851

A Crocodile Story.-We had some talk the other day with one of the very few survivors of the Egyptian expedition under Sir Ralph Abercromby, who has lived to obtain the Egyptian medal fifty years after it was earned. What a mockery to wait until there were not, perhaps ten alive in the country and then […]

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Crocodile In A Tree.

Saturday, August 31, 2013
Published in the The Evanston Daily, Evanston, Illinois on Wednesday, October 22, 1913

An African hunter once found a large crocodile hanging in the fork of a tree about ten feet from the ground. As the place was fully half a mile from any water, it was difficult to account for the crocodile’s strange position. When questioned upon the subject the natives explained that it was put there […]

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Crocodile Kidnaps Rhino.

Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, September 19, 1922

A traveler in Africa gives an idea of the strength and size of some of the crocodiles which inhabit the rivers and pools of the Dark continent. He describes a huge rhinoceros enjoying a mud bath, gradually disappearing from view in spite of its most frantic struggles and being carried to the depths by a […]

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