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The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions

Chapter IX · , § II.—Of Congo.

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[A Crocodile Story.]221

... Andrew Battell told me of a huge crocodile which was reported to have eaten a whole Alibamba, that is, a company of eight or nine slaves chained together, and at last paid for his greediness: the chain holding him slave, as before it had the negroes, and by his undigestible nature devouring the devourer; remaining in the belly of him after he was found, in testimony of this victory. He hath seen them watch and take their prey, haling a gennet, man, or other creature into the water. A soldier thus drawn in by a crocodile, in shallower waters, with his knife wounded him in the belly, and slew him.

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