. Adventure--travel--exploration. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Zoology. 172 THE GREAT THICK-SKINNED ANIMALS The best time to hunt hippo is at night and the place a "run" or path by which they go to water. There are flattened places on the banks often where the big ugly brutes come out to roll. The easiest and best thing to do is to climb a tree before moonrise near this run or rolling place and wait until the hippo's peculiar tooting challenge is heard or the noise of the great beast crashing through the forest or pounding along the run. This is the best sort of an opportunity to
. Adventure--travel--exploration. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Zoology. 172 THE GREAT THICK-SKINNED ANIMALS The best time to hunt hippo is at night and the place a "run" or path by which they go to water. There are flattened places on the banks often where the big ugly brutes come out to roll. The easiest and best thing to do is to climb a tree before moonrise near this run or rolling place and wait until the hippo's peculiar tooting challenge is heard or the noise of the great beast crashing through the forest or pounding along the run. This is the best sort of an opportunity to get a specimen, as, if the shooting has to be done from an island or from the bank on foot, a charge by the hippo may result very A BATTLE BETWEEN A BUFFALO AND A HIPPOPOTAMUS Though the enormous ungainly body is carried on very short legs, it is capable of considerable speed for a short distance on land and of swimming with perfect ease, and not only the rush but an attack with the heavy tusks placed on both sides of the big, thick, square head is to be feared. Hippos are comparatively numerous, and Mr. Cunninghame will undoubtedly take care that Mr. Roosevelt secures at least one specimen. The tusks are much valued as trophies, and the natives are very fond of the flesh. Another familiar use of the hippo in South and East Africa is to supply the hide for making the sjambok, the terrible. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Unger, Frederic William, 1875- [from old catalog]. [Philadelphia, The John C. Winston co. ]
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