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The two thousand four hundred and seventy-eight clean beasts, oxen, elk, giraffes, camels, deer, antelope, sheep, goats, with the horses, zebras, asses, hippopotami, rodents, and marsupials could not have required less than four thousand five hundred tons; making a total of five thousand eight hundred and fifty tons.
Elephants, hippopotami, and pigs are the only game here, but we see none: the tsetse feed on them. In the low meadow land, from one to three miles broad, which lies along both banks, we have brackish pools, and one, a large one, which we passed, called Wrongwé, had much fish, and salt is got from it. 21st April, 1866.
Oh, how horrible if they should seize Stanley's boat! They are between him and us. He will never be able to come back." "Do not be afraid, Miss Bella," said Jack. "The captain will give a good account of them. A bullet would soon send any one of them to the bottom." Jack, however, shouted out to Stanley, and pointed to the hippopotami.
On wading through the water we looked out sharply for crocodiles and hippopotami, lest one of those fresh-water monsters should venture to attack us; we got over, however, without accident.
Toward sunset, they stopped on the banks of the river on a rising ground, and the Hottentots and some Caffres were then directed to go down to the river in chase of the hippopotami, as it was advisable to save their provisions as much as possible. Before night they had succeeded, and the carcass of the animal was hauled on shore.
The rapids in the part of the river between Katima-molelo and Nameta are relieved by several reaches of still, deep water, fifteen or twenty miles long. In these very large herds of hippopotami are seen, and the deep furrows they make, in ascending the banks to graze during the nights, are every where apparent.
Hippopotami abound in the rivers in the vicinity of the town, when young, the flesh and skin of these animals are sold as food, and whips and other articles are made of the skins of the old ones. At the usual hour of the following day, April 17th, they quitted Jadoo, and in the middle of the day arrived at a clean, pretty little village, called Pooya.
Increasing Beauty of the Country Mode of spending the Day The People and the Falls of Gonye A Makololo Foray A second prevented, and Captives delivered up Politeness and Liberality of the People The Rains Present of Oxen The fugitive Barotse Sekobinyane's Misgovernment Bee-eaters and other Birds Fresh-water Sponges Current Death from a Lion's Bite at Libonta Continued Kindness Arrangements for spending the Night during the Journey Cooking and Washing Abundance of animal Life Different Species of Birds Water-fowl Egyptian Geese Alligators Narrow Escape of one of my Men Superstitious Feelings respecting the Alligator Large Game The most vulnerable Spot Gun Medicine A Sunday Birds of Song Depravity; its Treatment Wild Fruits Green Pigeons Shoals of Fish Hippopotami.
They had not gone far, however, when the canoe began to leak, and they discovered that it had been patched up in many places, After they had paddled about thirty miles, they were in great danger from the hippopotami, which rose very near to them, and came "snorting, splashing, and tumbling all round the canoe."
Beyond it we came among the upland vegetation rhododendrons, proteas, the masuko, and molompi. At the foot of the hill, Kasuko-suko, we found the River Bua running north to join the Kaombe. We had to go a mile out of our way for a ford; the stream is deep enough in parts for hippopotami.
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