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"A hunter who was travelling alone on a tributary of the Zambesi River tried to capture a small hippo but the mother was close at hand and soon got the youngster into the water. The current was very swift and the little hippo, winded by its rapid flight, could not swim against it."

Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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HIPPOPOTAMUS HUX FIXG but their snout, eyes and ears and as the head of the hippo is very flat it cancret these sense organs out of water without showing more than two or three inches of flesh. Shooting hippos is a very difficult and unsatisfactory sport, for a riflebullet will hardly do any harm if fired into the body. The only place thatthey can be shot is in the brain which being exceedingly small and wellprotected between the ears renders the task doubly difficult. Again when ahippc dies its body sinks to the bottom at once. A hunter who was travellmg alone on a tributary of the Zambesi Rivertried to capture a small hippo but the mother was close at hand and soon
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o-ot the youngster into the water. The current was very swift and the littlehippo, winded by its rapid flight, could not swim against it. About a quarterof a mile away were some rapids towards which the little hippo was bornewith its mother trying to overtake it. The hunter ran down the bank andclimbed out on to some rocks hoping to head the pair off. The baby hippoafter vainlv struggling was swept over the falls. The hunter was armedonly with a heavy revolver consequently he did not get either of the pair.The hippo is very vicious and will sometimes charge canoes and upset HIPPOPOTAMUS HUNTING them, killing the rowers. It is never safe to navigate any river where hipposlive. Crocodiles and hippos live in peace together as one is a flesh eaterand the other feeds on vegitables, but sometimes the hippos for some reasonor other drive the crocodiles away. The upper and lower front teeth of thehippos are very long and contain magnificent ivory which is distinguishedfrom the elephants by th

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