Their flesh is eaten, and relished.

The banks, on which the female lays her eggs by night, are carefully searched by day, and all the eggs dug out and devoured.

The fish-hawk makes havoc among the few young ones that escape their other enemies.

Our men were constantly on the look-out for crocodiles' nests.
One was found containing thirty-five newly-laid eggs, and they declared that the crocodile would lay as many more the second night in another place.

The eggs were a foot deep in the sand on the top of a bank ten feet high.