Of late the hippopotamus has been the most notorious of the three; though he is far from being as interesting an animal as the rhinoceros.
The answer is, that the cry of the hippopotamus was fancied to resemble the neighing of a horse; and in some respects this is really the case.
The Hippopotamuswas known to the Greeks and Romans.
In that case the time of the Hippopotamus in England was neither earlier nor later than that of the palms and acacias of the "early" Tertiary or Mesozoic rocks, or than that of the mammoth, lion, and hyena of the Pleistocene.
Let us go to a warmer climate, to Sicily, and read a description of the remains of the hippopotamus found there.
We are always pointed to the wool on the rhinoceros and the mammoth as indicating a somewhat cool climate, but the well known amphibious habits of the hippopotamus cannot be so easily disposed of.
The Quango is said by the natives to contain many venomous water-snakes, which congregate near the carcass of any hippopotamus that may be killed in it.
So when the Egyptian was placed on the Nile the hippopotamus was created to provide whips to rule him with.
In the Edfou monuments Set is slain and dismembered in the shape of a red hippopotamus (Naville, Mythe d'Horus, p.
Yet another hypothesis is offered by Mr. Le Page Renouf, and in the case of Set and the hippopotamus is shared by M.
To replace entire dentures a base-plate of carved hippopotamus ivory was constructed, upon which were mounted the crowns of natural teeth, or later those of porcelain.
Tentyra, there was another Ombos, venerating the hippopotamus sacred to Set.
For some time the wounded hippopotamus remained master of the field, and no enemy appearing in sight, he sank, uttering a horrible bellow as he disappeared out of sight.
The hippopotamus is very apt to cut a man in two if he catches him.
The hippopotamus has four equal toes on each foot, inclosed in hoofs.
He had even got up once at the British Association, and declared that apes had hippopotamus majors in their brains just as men have.
Nothing is to be depended on but the greathippopotamus test.
If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.
The Mandenga are supposed to have either the manati or the hippopotamus as tanna.
Danger mingled with sport in capturing the larger game--the hippopotamus and crocodile.
No such feeling existed concerning the hippopotamus and he who was successful in securing one seldom failed to have the hunt pictured in his tomb.
The hippopotamus came; He sat upon my chest: The hippopotamus roared "I'll spot him!
Once he almost stumbled upon a hippopotamus asleep in the sedge, and thought it lucky he was at the head of his men, whom the snort of the beast, as it rose and shambled away into the darkness, might have infected with panic.
Hippopotamus stupendous to your prowess falls a prey.
But it will be long before the lion, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus and other more or less formidable neighbours cease to be factors with which the emigrant has to reckon.
He caught some fine fish in the rivers, and wished there had been time to follow up the hippopotamus tracks he discovered on the banks.
The broad-backed hippopotamus Rests on his belly in the mud; Although he seems so firm to us He is merely flesh and blood.
We might, however, suggest that, if the hippopotamus amongst mammals could survive all the changing time since the Pliocene, as it has done, it seems no more than fair to admit equal power of endurance to the human species.
The first living species of mammals is found in the remains of the hippopotamus that frequented the rivers of Pliocene times.
I left the savage crowd in their ferocious enjoyment of flesh and blood, and I returned to camp for breakfast, my Turk, Hadji Achmet, carrying some hippopotamus steaks.
After breakfast we strolled down to the pool to search for the hippopotamus No.
Sometimes this punishment is exceedingly severe, being inflicted with the coorbatch or whip of hippopotamus hide, which is cracked vigorously about his ribs and back.
Although the hippopotamus is amphibious, he requires a large and constant supply of air; the lungs are of enormous size, and he invariably inflates them before diving.
The harpoon forhippopotamus and crocodile hunting is a piece of soft steel about eleven inches long, with a narrow blade or point of about three-quarters of an inch in width, and a single but powerful barb.
It was the affair of a moment; the hunters dived directly they had hurled their harpoons, and, swimming for some distance under water, they came to the surface, and hastened to the shore lest an infuriated hippopotamus should follow them.
Upon both sides of the river the people now advanced, dragging the rope on the surface of the water until they reached the ambatch float that was swimming to and fro, according to the movements of the hippopotamus below.
Dismounting, to my surprise the Arabs immediately stripped from a mimosa several thongs of bark, and having tied the baboons by the neck, they gave them a merciless whipping with their powerful coorbatches of hippopotamus hide.
Hans and Groot Willem were together; and, as soon as the broad side of a hippopotamus came fairly before them, both fired at the same beast, taking aim behind the shoulder.
In a similar fashion did the hippopotamus lie down to rise no more.
The hide of the hippopotamus is used by the natives for many purposes.
In passing a shallow place in the river, they had attempted to kill a hippopotamus which they saw walking about on the bottom of the stream, like a buffalo browsing upon a plain.
The pit is concealed with much care, and as months may pass without a hippopotamus straying into the trap, it may be imagined how strong an effort of perseverance and patience is required in capturing one of these amphibious creatures.
After passing some four or five weeks inhippopotamus hunting, Groot Willem became anxious to engage in the real business for which he had undertaken the hunting expedition.
According to Michael Boyn, the hippopotamushas been found in the rivers of China.
But he could claim his share in killing a hippopotamus under circumstances no more favourable than the two who had allowed their game to escape.
Capensis, or the hippopotamus of the Cape, and the H.
Several oxen were taken along, laden with dried hippopotamus flesh, crushed maize, and other articles of food to be used on the journey.
We have only been in the neighbourhood of the Limpopo for a few short weeks; and we have been successful in getting a good many hippopotamus teeth.
Our hunters had left home with the determination to take back a pair of young giraffes, and to pay all expenses of their expedition by this, as also by the sale of hippopotamus teeth.
The natives are very fond of hippopotamus flesh, and resort to many expedients to secure the desired delicacy.
Each man uses a broad, short paddle, and as the canoe is noiselessly propelled toward a sleeping hippopotamus not a ripple is raised on the water.
Their prey is soon secured, for the well-aimed harpoon has done its work, and the hippopotamus is soon forced to succumb.
Sir Samuel Baker, the African traveller, relates an encounter with a large bull hippopotamus which was taking an evening stroll on the bank of the river, quietly munching grass.
These tusks are so powerful that a hippopotamus has been known to cut holes through the iron plates of a Nile steamer with one blow.
The hippopotamus is supposed by many to be identical with the behemoth of Scripture, which is described as a beast "that lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed and fens.
And, as they looked, the hippopotamus opened his great, big red jaws as wide as he could, and the man just turned the whole pail full of soft bran into the hippo's mouth!
Believe me, and I speak as one who is both a hippopotamus and a brother, you will be as little run after, as little cared about this time next year, as I now am.
The reason for this proceeding is, that the hippopotamus always looks for its enemy upon the surface of the water, and, if the men were to swim to shore, they would be caught and killed before they had swum many strokes.
A canoe-man who knows the habits of the hippopotamus will fearlessly take his fragile vessel through a herd of the animals, knowing that, if he only avoids contact with them, they will not interfere with him.
Even within the memory of man the hippopotamus has been driven further and further up the Nile by the encroachments of man.
Baines, to whose sketches I am indebted for the illustration, told me that the hippopotamus is possessed of much more intellect than might be expected from a creature of so dull, clumsy, and unpromising aspect.
Now it is perfectly true of the hippopotamus that it eats grass like an ox, or like cattle, as the passage may be translated.
The crocodile and hippopotamus of the Nile are yet found in that mighty river, and yield their lives to the courage and skill of modern hunters as did those of old.
For example, the bones of the hippopotamusare said to be iron and copper, and the Crocodile is said to kindle live coals with his breath.
It is possible, however, that the hippopotamus and the Crocodile have had at one time a much wider range than they at present enjoy.
When Selous met Lobengula he was at first quite friendly, and when the hunter told him he had not killed a singlehippopotamus that year the king said there was no case against him.
So that Bo only grew more terrified and as it became darker began to fancy he heard animals around them, and once actually thought he saw a great hippopotamus with open jaws coming out of Clearwater toward them.
But no hippopotamus came; instead of that, she saw a boat with a light twinkling in it, come rowing down the lake toward the island.
