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Three days later, as Hal leanedover to give him water, Daniel suddenly reached up, pushed away hishead and took the mug from Hal's hands. My littleBobby was only a month old, and I could not place him in such danger. With a local pilot on board Hal was able to head on towardsMitsiwa with all dispatch, not even deigning to shorten sail when thesun set that evening. He smelt its light, subtle perfume on the waft ofsteam.

It could have been more costly. Then a swift V-shaped wake sped down the channel towhere the corporal was splashing about in the shallows. Schreuder braced himself and then, with a round-arm swing, hurled theupper half of Ahmed's dripping, dismembered corpse ahead of him intothe path of the crocodile's flailing charge. The razor edge cut to the bone, and the side of hisneck opened like a grinning red mouth.