"Yes, quite; I looked at it just now."
"So did I at mine. I don't think I'm at all afraid; are you?"
"I don't think so; but after what we saw this morning I can't help fancying that there might be a great snake somewhere in the boughs overhead, coming down lower and lower till it thrust in its head here. I say, fancy it taking one of us out and up into the tree."
"Shan't," said Harry. "I don't believe there are any in the jungle big enough to do such a thing."
"Oh, there are some monsters," said Phra quietly.
"Yes, so people like our Mike say. He told me once that some of your father's men said they had seen a croc fifty feet long. Hark at that!"
The sound was startling, and it came from off the water lower down the river.
"It's your fifty feet crocodile slapping the water with his tail to stun the fish," said Phra grimly.
"I don't know about fifty, but it sounds as if the great wretch might be thirty feet long. Ugh! What's to prevent a monster coming up close to the boat and helping himself to one of us? I couldn't go to sleep for thinking such a thing possible."
"I don't think there's any fear of such a thing happening. You never heard of anything of the kind among the thousands of boats down the river and canals."