hippopotamus-harpoons

Updated: June 4, 2025

The people seemed of a decidedly sporting order, for they kept hippopotamus-harpoons, attached to strong ropes with trimmers of pith wood, in their huts; and, outside, trophies of their toil in the shape of a pile of heads, consisting of those of buffalo and hippopotami.

John Hanning Speke - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile