Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1870 — Catching Alligators. [ARTICLE]

Catching Alligators.

Alligators are huge reptiles, but not very bright or shrewd, and are taken easily by men cunning enough to lay a snare for them. The Siamese natives take them * Wf the fbHoWing fashion: They..take a live duck, and under it "they attach a piece of wood about six •' Inches long, proportionately thick, and dt pqjjMed at both ends. To this piece of wood, they tiew fine but very strong cord, ■’ll to which-are attached pieces of bamboo, * which serve for floats. They then put , the duck in the middle of the river, and the bird, finding itself embarrassed by the wootf struggles to get rfejot it. , -The crocodile, apeiug it, dives into the water, attempts to take it from below, and “♦"felJW instead, the piece of wood, which WCKs CTdstfwiSp in its'throat. As soon as perceive that he is taken, which is by the shaking of the' cord and the? agitation of. the bamboo, the signal is given, and the animaliadrawn la.tije top of the water, in spite of the efforts he makes to got- free. When he appears, dart their harpoons into Timpe are a kind of dart, the iron point of Which ft shaped like an arrow, attachfeet.lone. To thjiarnHA point, which is ipiepeed In, the socket, is attached a very fine Cord, twisted around the stick, Which detaches itself H;4«pjfi[thein3h, and which floating on the Mate* indicates. the spot where the animal ’’ls. ' wheewhey have planted a Sufficient I-jyiumbfn of harpoons in bis bodj, they 1 ashore

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