Question

a jungle track came out of scrub each side and down to the sun whitened stepping stones meaning

Answer 1

Explanation:

From the day, perhaps a hundred years ago, when the sun had hatched him in a sandbank, and he had broken his hell, and got his head out and looked around, ready to snap at anything before he was even fully hatched – from that day when had at once made for the water, ready to fend for himself immediately, he had lived by his brainless craft and ferocity. Escaping the birds of prey and the great carnivorous fishes that eat baby crocodiles, he had prospered catching all the food he needed, and storing it till putrid in holes in the bank. Tepid water to live in plenty of rotted food grew him to his great length.