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of the water to her & eat what she brought, he was she said not like other crocodiles but hansomer his body being spotted & his nose red, moreover he had bracelets of Gold on his feet; & ear rings of the same metal in his ears, I heard her out patiently without finding fault with the absurdity of her giving ears to a crocodile, on while I am writing this, my Servant, who I hird at Batavia & is a mongrel between a duch man & Javan woman, tells me, that he has seen at Batavia a crocodile of this kind, it was about 2 feet long being very young, Many both Malays & dutch saw it at the same time, it had gold bracelets on, ah, said I, why such a one at Batavia told me of one which had Ear rings likewise, & you know that a crocodile has no ears, ah, but said he, these Sudara Oran are different from other Crocodiles they have 5 toes on each foot, & a large tongue which fills their mouth, & they have ears also, but they are very small, so far will a popular Error deceive people unusd to examine into the truth of what they are told
The Bougis, Macassars & Boetons who