Although they had failed in procuring what they wanted, it was not yet proved that the hopo had been built in vain.
A site for the hopo was chosen about half a mile from the forest edge, and the construction of it was immediately commenced.
Completely exhausted with his long run, he had not been able to return with the deliverers, but had remained at the camp, where the hopo was being constructed.
They seemed frantic with rage at the escape of the elephants, though these would undoubtedly have defeated the object for which the hopo had been erected.
Within the two walls of the hopo they could see before them a living, moving mass, composed of many varieties of animals; among them they saw with regret two elephants and a rhinoceros.
The pit was covered with reeds and rushes; and no means were neglected to make the hopo as effective as possible for the purpose required of it.
So when I reached the hopo I found it full of miserable, struggling, howling life, awful to see.
The hopo is a large pit dug in a favourable spot, generally just the other side of a slight rise, in neighbourhoods where game is abundant, and is often used year after year.
In passing-through the forests it is surprising to see none but old footsteps of the game; but the hopo destruction accounts for its absence.
If game was to be had, I should have hunted; but the hopo way of hunting prevails, and we pass miles of hedges by which many animals must have perished.
Hunting is carried on by means of the hopo hedges, within whose bounds the wild beasts are frightened by circles of hunters.
The hunters now extended themselves, each man keeping within sight of the other, forming a circle round the broad entrance of the hopo of four or five miles in extent, thus surrounding a large area.
We had no doubt that it was one of the creatures which had been speared at the hopo hunt when Stanley was present, and having escaped, had wandered thus far from its usual haunts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hopo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
