["Australian Alligators", The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Saturday 09 April 1904, page 9]
AUSTRALIAN ALLIGATORS.
(By Warramunga.*)
The telegram from Western Australia, published in Wednesday's Advertiser, touching the extraordinary death of Constable Parker, of Wyndham, brings vividly before the public an almost unknown phase of life in the Australian tropics. The Advertiser recently published accounts from Port Darwin, showing thta alligators in that vicinity are on the increase. This is said to be due to the fact that the aboriginals are gradually getting farther back from the settlements of white men. In pre-settlemeht days they habitually hunted for alligator nests and eggs, but now the productiveness of the amphibians is unchecked.
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