In Papuan
p. 96 · Read in the full issue
Profit and Hard Work In Papuan Crocodile Shooting
(Prom Our Own Correspondent)
Moresby, Jan. 1.
A FOUR-MONTHS shooting trip, 250 miles up the Fly River, Papua, has yielded a bag of 1,400 crocodiles for two young Europeans.
The two hunters—Mr. J. Lang horne and Mr. Sandy Braes—used .303 rifles, spotlights, a 45-foot launch and two dinghies fitted with outboard engines. Each of the dinghies had a crew of three natives.
Mr. Langhorne says with this out fit it is possible to get 100 crocodiles a night, but he and his partner cut the number to 50 because of the difficulty of handling more skins on the day after the shoot.
He says that there is a good profit in crocodile shooting in waters which
have not previously been worked o by other hunters. But mud, mosq toes, the general hardship of liv on small boats in a vast swan night-shooting patrols and dayti supervision of skinning and salt the hides, all make the profits ha earned. The partners realised fr £3 to £3/10/- for each hide livered in Australia—between £4,( and £5,000, less heavy expenses, four months’ hard work.