Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter
CHAPTER VI.
Fishing in India.--Hereditary trades.--The boatmen and fishermen of India.--Their villages.--Nets.--Modes of fishing.--Curiosities relating thereto.--Catching an alligator with a hook.--Exciting capture. --Crocodiles.--Shooting an alligator.--Death of the man-eater.