There were five or six hippos in the school, and for days afterwards, Hodgson did not cease to lament having been unable to bag at least one of them.
These two hippos were the only ones shot by the expedition, although many others were seen and photographed.
He had seen a school of hippos for the first time.
When killed, hippos always sink, and the time that elapses before they rise may vary considerably from one to as much as six hours, depending both on the temperature and depth of the water and also on the condition of the animal.
In places like Kavirondo, where the natives cultivate the ground to a large extent and where hippos abound, they are a source of great annoyance, as during the night they do much damage to the crops.
At night when in search of food hippos will wander long distances, and I have seen their spoor as much as three miles away from the nearest water.
When once scared, however, the conditions are changed, as hippos then become very cunning and take a great deal of circumventing, and will test the sportsman’s patience as well as the accuracy and quickness of his aim to the utmost.
If then these exterior stones related to the [707]seven erratic bodies in our sphere, the central monument of Hippos must necessarily have been designed for the Sun.
He had read ofhippos swamping boats by seizing the narrow bows or keel in their vast jaws, and he wished to be prepared for a possible attack.
The islands shimmered in the glare as if they were afloat; the hippos took to the water, and a deep and drowsy silence fell upon the great river.
They marked where the hippos stood with their bulky heads to the sun, and saw the crocodiles on the sands of other islands lying motionless with distended jaws.
Hippos played about in the river, baboons scampered about on the edge of the water, monkeys chattered in the trees, and it seemed as though nearly all of the eight hundred varieties of East African birds gave us a morning serenade.
With this current running and the hipposbarging about you wouldn't stand a dog's chance.
Thank heaven there were no hippos to be seen, although a splashing sound at some distance off told the sub that some sort of large amphibians were sporting in the moonlight.
He had a mental vision of a swim in the dark, with hippos and crocodiles for company.
So intent were they that the swimmers were unnoticed, but for half a minute after the hippos had passed Denbigh and O'Hara floated motionless, not trusting to swim forward another foot.
There were numbers of hippos in this part of the river, and we were not long before we found a herd.
They desired me to lie down, and they crept into the jungle out of view of the river; I presently observed them stealthily descending the dry bed about two hundred paces above the spot where the hippos were basking behind the rocks.
The field for fighting formed four corners: Lions to the north, Hippos to the south, Elephants to the east, and Whales were confined to the west.
The Hippos run with their heads linked together; in this way, the strongest roots himself to the spot while the others collapse inward.
In much the same way, the Hippos and the musicians made the same kind of exit.
As to that midnight hunt I am still uncertain as to whether we were hunting the hipposor the hippos were hunting us.
Anfossi argued the hippos would prefer to drink the clear water of the stream, to the muddy water of the basin, and elected to watch at the stream.
We soon saw many hippos, but although we could not persuade the only other passenger not to fire at them, there are a few hippos still alive in the Congo.
Hippos (now Susieh) may now be added to these, with Hammath and Rakkath.
The most interesting result of Herr Schumacher's journeys have been the discovery of the sites of Hippos and Kokaba east of the Sea of Galilee, and of dolmen centres like those which I found in Moab.
The identity of Hipposand Susieh was suggested by Dr.
The crew at once drew in close to the bank, where the current was least strong, but we advanced very slowly, foot by foot, the hippos accompanying us, swimming along the other bank.
We had just got to the entrance of the canal when the two hippos came up from a dive thirty yards ahead of us, their roar sounding much as if children were blowing a trumpet into a watering can, only louder.
On the journey out we saw twohippos in the distance.
The rowers gasped with fear and encouraged each other with low calls {58} while the hippos pushed their ugly heads out of the water and glared angrily across at us.
By the time they arrived opposite the feeding ground several hippos had come out from the reeds for a bath in the shallows of the river, only their heads and backs showing above the water.
But except for a few hippos half hidden in the long grass or reeds at the river-side, and here and there a crocodile basking on a rock or sandbank, its scaly back scarcely distinguishable from the soil, the river was deserted.
Herodotus, Aristotle, and the other Greek writers constantly call this animal ~hippos potamios~.
Josephus waited for an hour, until the ships from Hippos also came up, and then caused them all to anchor off the town--but at such a distance that the numbers of those on board could not be seen.
They made a detour to avoid Hippos for, as John said, there might be inquiries as to everyone who was noticed coming from the direction of the scene of the struggle.
Following the road by the side of the Hieromax they kept on, without meeting anything to cause alarm, until they reached the angle of the stream, where the road to Hippos branched off from that which followed the river down to Tarichea.
All manner of animal cries are heard in the forest and the hippos blow loudly as they rise to the surface to breathe.
Spoor of elephants and hippos abound and the grunt of the latter can frequently be heard, but they are not sitting up on their haunches waiting to be shot.
The fact of five hippos in retreat after I had counted six in the onset was conclusive that my waltzing friend was either dead or disabled; I accordingly lost no time in following the direction of the herd.
After a quick walk of about half a mile, during which time the cry of the hippos had been several times repeated, I observed six of these curious animals standing in the water about shoulder-deep.
You will find plenty ofhippos in the river, and crocs too.
And as some of the boys were always out watching the show, those hippos had no respite during the daylight hours.
During our stay these hippos led a life of alarmed and angry care.
All traces of the ancient Hippos except the name have disappeared.
Hippos was comparatively near the sea, where Susiye now lies.
I presently observed them stealthily descending the dry bed about two hundred paces above the spot where the hippos were basking behind the rocks.
The hipposwere quite unconscious of the approaching danger, as, steadily and rapidly, the hunters floated down the strong current.
On asking him why, I learned that the Taveta people had found three dead hipposin Lake Jipe and one rhino near its shores.
I kept on, despite the ardent prayer of the boatman, and when within 100 yards, and upon seeing three of the hippos disappear beneath the surface, I took careful aim and fired at the nearest of the remaining two.
Justus, persuaded the citizens of Tiberias to "set the villages that belonged to Gadara and Hippos on fire; which villages were situated on the borders of Tiberias and of the region of Scythopolis.
There were Greek merchants from Hippos and Sepphoris, Pharisees from Jericho, and Scribes from Jerusalem.
A merchant from Hippos did not understand, and the Law was explained.
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