Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia : from observations made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan (1911)
Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936, inscriber. DSI, Nebb, C.H.S., former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 234
The digestive power of the gastric secretions is very great ; animal flesh and bones are quickly dissolved. How indifferently crocodiles take toll of animals at and in the rivers or pools is testified by the following objects found in the stomach of a crocodile twelve feet long, killed by K.… … Side View of the Skull of a Crocodile. The brute had been a terror to the inhabitants of the Nile, near Silsilis. When shot, its stomach con¬ tained three hoofs of a sheep, a donkey’s hoof, a donkey’s bridle, and a boy’s ear-ring. (Museum, Royal College of Surgeons. ) of the large river turtles.”…
Natural history · Indigenous peoples · Ethnology
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