But, Alexander, there are three hippopotami lying asleep on the side of the river.
It happened that a herd of hippopotami were driven on land where it grew abundantly; they instantly rushed furiously into the water, and, in spite of every effort and stratagem, could not be made to return to the shore.
In our world thehippopotami are very fond of freshwater rivers.
It is a grand sight to see large herds of hippopotami so joyfully excited.
Before I describe the mode adopted when we wish to take one of the hippopotami from the herd, I should first premise that these beasts have the sense of hearing, acute to the highest degree, and could note even the fall of a pin.
There are times when the hippopotami seek to be invisible; they then bury themselves in the sand, and not one can be seen.
In Montalluyah there are large lakes, protected and enclosed by iron-work, where hippopotami are reared.
Hippopotami are very numerous in my planet; their breed is encouraged, for they are found to be invaluable.
The guide asked to go to a fishing camp nearby and call some men to secure the hippopotami when they rose, or else they would go out with the current and over the rapids.
Last year a bill was introduced in the lower House of Congress proposing to provide funds for the introduction into certain southern states of various animals from Africa, especially hippopotami and African antelopes.
As the canoe rounded each bend of the river, the crocodiles glided from the mud-banks and the hippopotamisank silently under the stream.
The boys answered that they had come down-stream to shoot hippopotami for food.
They saw the birds all green and red flashing along the surface of the water, and the hugehippopotami sullenly plunging into the river like the floating islands of earth that sail down the Congo.
So he got a canoe and launched it in the river by the village and paddled further and further up the stream, under the overhanging trees, and sometimes across the deep pools in which the big and fierce hippopotami and crocodiles lived.
Hippopotami upset them, and men were dragged down and eaten by crocodiles.
An extraordinary feature of Kivu, and the rivers and small lakes of the Kivu system, is the absence of hippopotami and crocodiles.
The northern shore of the lake is flat and sandy, and for a long distance from land the water is very shallow; even at a distance of two miles hippopotami could walk on the bottom with their heads above water.
There are enormous numbers of hippopotami in these reaches, and they constitute a very real danger to navigation.
Young hippopotami have been captured and placed in zoological gardens, but as they become old they grow savage, and are very hard to manage.
Then I went down into the recesses of the morass, and waded afar in among the wilderness of the lilies, and called unto the hippopotami which dwelt among the fens in the recesses of the morass.
And the hippopotami heard my call, and came, with the behemoth, unto the foot of the rock, and roared loudly and fearfully beneath the moon.
The hippopotamiswam by and dived, and presently we saw them rise to the surface with a quantity of weeds in their mouths, which they chewed leisurely as they swam on.
In the river and lake, too, there is an immense number of hippopotami and crocodiles.
How they proposed getting the bodies of the hippopotami out of the river I could not tell, and fully expected that they would soon be lost to sight.
However, as I knew it was possible that one of the hippopotamimight strike us, we paddled up the stream as fast as we could go.
Hippopotami floated lazily about in the water, while crocodiles, roused to alarm by the canoe, would rush out of the bushes to hide themselves in the depths of the lake.
Often numerous hippopotami may be seen resting in its depths, their ugly noses barely showing above the surface.
The hippopotami were numerous on the rivers, and unlike those more to the south, they showed little fear of man.
The voices of the speakers as they conversed eagerly together, with the wail of the jackals and hyenas, the barking of the foxes, the snort of the hippopotami on the river bank, broke the silence of the starlight night.
The hippopotami and rhinoceros were often met with on the river banks.
That was a dangerous undertaking, as the lake then, as to-day, was inhabited by hippopotami and crocodiles.
On these islands hippopotami feed when inclination prompts, and crocodiles sun themselves and sleep when they choose land to water rest.
The water pirates, like hippopotami on a foraging expedition, sometimes take a stroll from their river haunts and succeed in plundering the passengers of the railway train.
With rhinoceroses and hippopotami the procedure was similar.
In this way had come the crocodiles, hippopotami and rhinoceroses.
Troops of hippopotami could be seen disporting themselves in the forests of reeds, or plunging beneath the whitish waters of the lake.
Not a word was spoken, as the men had warned them that the slightest noise would scare the hippopotami and cause them to sink to the bottom of the pools, where they would be difficult to capture.
Both hippopotami and elephants have been known to be swept over the Falls, and of course smashed to pulp.
The hippopotami are more wary here than higher up, as the natives hunt them with guns.
We had one morning two hippopotami and an elephant, perhaps in all some eight tons of meat, and two days after the last of a few sardines only for dinner.
Many hippopotami were seen in the river, and one of them stretched its wide jaws, as if to swallow the whole stern of the boat, close to Dr.
The hippopotami delighted to spend the day among the breakers, and seemed to enjoy the fun as much as we did.
The hippopotami never made a mistake, but got out of our way.
On a shallow sandbank, under the dyke, lay a herd ofhippopotami in fancied security.
Hippopotami swarm very much at their ease in the creeks and lagoons, and herds are sometimes seen in the lake itself.
The bunodont type is best seen in Pigs andHippopotami and such extinct forms as Hyotherium.
The Camels differ from all living Ungulata vera in not having the distal phalanges completely encased in hoofs, and from all except the Hippopotami in placing a considerable amount of the manus on the ground in walking.
In the Hippopotami the four digits are of approximately equal size, and the middle ones do not have the contiguous faces of their ungual phalanges flattened.
In the afternoon I went down to the pool where the hippopotami were, but they had got much more shy, and showed only just the tops of their heads and their wicked-looking little ears above water.
As these hippopotami had got so shy, I commenced to-day, with the help of Brou, to make a raft on which to try and go down the river to them.
Great numbers of hippopotami this evening, greeting the boats with their loud snorting bellow, which vibrates through the vessels.
Great numbers of hippopotami were sporting in the water, but I refused to fire at them, as the death of such a monster would be certain to delay us for at least a day, as the boatmen would not forsake the flesh.
Hippopotami are heard snorting in the high reeds both day and night, but we see very few.
A number of harpoons and floats for hippopotami were arranged in good order, and the tout ensemble of the hut showed that the owner was a sportsman.
The harpoons for hippopotami were precisely the same pattern as those used by the Hamran Arabs on the Taka frontier of Abyssinia, having a narrow blade of three-quarters of an inch in width, with only one barb.
At night the hoarse music of hippopotami snorting and playing among the high-flooded reeds, and the singing of countless myriads of mosquitoes--the nightingales of the White Nile.
These pools are the resort of numerous hippopotami and the natural inhabitants of the river.
The night still as death; dogs barking in the distant villages, and herds of hippopotami snorting in all directions, being disturbed by the boats.
The boatmen told me that dead hippopotami had been found on the other side, that had been carried under the dam and drowned.
At leaving the shore, the chief had asked for a few beads, which, on receiving, he threw into the lake to propitiate the inhabitants of the deep, that no hippopotami should upset the canoe.
And you know, Negoro, hippopotami and elephants in America are like honest men in the penitentiaries of Benguela.
The silence of night was only disturbed by the clattering scales of the crocodiles, or the snorting of the hippopotami that sported on the banks.
They were hippopotami whose repose Dick Sand had troubled under the large plants!
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