. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . back a great many years, contained some queerrecords, some of them of doubtful veracity. Among others, someone has written : March 19, 1872, killed a large aUigator, thelargest seen here this year ; the stomach contained a boot, a piece 70 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. of pine wood, a fishermans float, and some small fish. Immedi-ately beneath this record was another which evidently some waghad added : March 24, killed a much bigger alligator than theone mentioned above. The stomach contained a
. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . back a great many years, contained some queerrecords, some of them of doubtful veracity. Among others, someone has written : March 19, 1872, killed a large aUigator, thelargest seen here this year ; the stomach contained a boot, a piece 70 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. of pine wood, a fishermans float, and some small fish. Immedi-ately beneath this record was another which evidently some waghad added : March 24, killed a much bigger alligator than theone mentioned above. The stomach contained a gold watch,$10,000 in government bonds, and a cord of wood. On the nextpage, written in a neat, unobtrusive style, was inscribed the follow-ing : Shot the biggest alligator ever known in Florida ; thestomach contained the remains of a steam launch, a lot of old rail-way iron, and a quantity of melted ice, proving that it existed duringthe glacial epoch. CROCODILES. The crocodile occurs in the rivers and bays of extreme SouthFlorida, but is seldom found far from salt water, rarely being found. CROCODILE. in any of the fresh water streams. It may easily be distinguishedfrom the alligator by its narrow snout and the holes in the end of the ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES. 71 upper jaw into which the two front teeth of the lower jaw a rule, it lives in the bays and inland creeks which abound in thesouthern portion of the State. Passing through some of thesecreeks, where the banks are one or two feet above high water mark,numbers of their well-worn- slides may be seen, where they climb outon the bank to sleep and sun themselves. It is claimed that thecrocodile cannot be hunted at night, but as I do not hunt in thatmanner I have no personal knowledge of the subject. The huntersclaim that the crocodiles will not look at a light and that they cannot shine their eyes, as they can those of an alligator, which is luckyfor the crocodiles, as they are not very numerous even now. Crocodi
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