The elephants and rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses had to go outside the hedge to swell because there wasn't room inside.
The three hippopotamuses paused before the cave, with their front feet upon the bank and their bodies in the water, and called in chorus a greeting to Glinkomok.
It was continual warfare between the hippopotamuses and the black people.
Not long ago the queen of this tribe of hippopotamuses had a child which she named Keo, because it was so fat and round.
For the black man had made a bundle of his bracelets and shell necklaces and little gold ornaments and had traveled many miles into another country, where the ancient and royal tribe of hippopotamuses was unknown.
So months passed away, during which all the royal hippopotamuses were sad and gloomy except the Jolly One himself.
The hippopotamuses were afraid to look upon it, and bowed their heads between their legs.
Illustration: "Hippopotamuses were snorting and blowing"] Not all of the hunted creatures found places of refuge.
Illustration: The upper part of the river valley] Hippopotamuses were snorting and blowing.
During the afternoon we passed a few hippopotamuses and an odd crocodile; but they were few and far between, and appeared to be very wild and wary.
We now commenced to creep very cautiously through the thick thorny bush, making our way for the most part through tunnels made by hippopotamuses during their night excursions in search of food.
In the open expanse of water, some half a mile in breadth, just opposite our camp, several hippopotamuses were grunting and playing about on our arrival, and as long as we remained here there were always some of these animals in sight.
Hippopotamuses and waterfowls were in abundance, and hosts of crocodiles sunned themselves upon the islands which here and there showed above the surface of the water.
The rivers are found swarming with hippopotamuses and alligators, while serpents, scorpions, and lizards are found in great numbers.
Those are the tails of two hippopotamuses engaged in deadly strife at the bottom of the swamp.
I shall have two small lakes (they are scarce in Africa) for my hippopotamuses and crocodiles.
Through the greenwood shades of the forests of oak wandered hippopotamuses and rhinoceroses of several kinds, the long-tusked mammoth, and two or three species of horses.
A Macacus still lingers in Europe, though the elephants and hippopotamuses have long deserted us.
Hippopotamuses are gregarious animals, living in herds of from 20 to 40 individuals on the banks and in the beds of rivers, in the neighbourhood of which they most readily find appropriate food.
The vast number of hippopotamuses implies that the physical condition of the country was different from what it is at present.
We camped at this spot four days; and never, in that length of time, during the daytime, did those hippopotamuses take any recreation and rest.
In the river itself dwelthippopotamuses and crocodiles.
There werehippopotamuses of all sizes and of all colours.
In the long still stretch dwelt about sixty hippopotamuses of all sizes.
The dragon swallowed all thehippopotamuses just as a dog swallows bits of meat.
He never shed a single tear for his poor tame hippopotamuses who had eaten from his hand and followed him faithfully in all the pleasures of the chase for so many years.
Few of you who had not seen a pack of hippopotamuses in full cry will be able to imagine at all what the hunt was like.
Then, of course, no one expects hippopotamusesto jump.
To begin with, hippopotamuses do not bay like hounds: They grunt like pigs, and their grunt is very big and fierce.
The Prince rode out of the town with his hippopotamuses trotting and frisking behind him, and people got inside their houses as quickly as they could when they heard the voices of his pack and the blowing of his horn.
Good sport," said the Prince, and he ordered out his pack of hippopotamuses at once.
Fourthly, tusks and bones of elephants and hippopotamuses are found not only in the northern regions of the old world, but also in those of the new world, although, at present, neither elephants norhippopotamuses occur in America.
Bounding on deck he found the padre already there, looking with dismay at a crowd of hippopotamuses sporting in their lumbering way among the rushes.
The sun was just setting, and in the fast-gathering darkness he could descry the gigantic forms of hippopotamuses and rhinoceroses taking their evening bath in the mud.
The boats were very strong, but liable to be upset at any instant by the plunging of the hippopotamuses in the river.
Seals seem never to tire of chasing one another through the water; while even the clumsy hippopotamuses have diving games.
Hippopotamuses are protected by their immense heads, and are capable of defending their young from crocodiles even when in the water.
This rude shaft was then hung up to the branch of a large tree immediately over the path by which the hippopotamuses were wont to go down to the river.
They are the hippopotamuses Kobo told us of," said Nick.
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