A trap used to catch hippopotami in central Africa, near Lake Nyassa, at the time of the expeditions of Stanley and Livingstone.

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The illustration dates to the late 1800s and shows a trap used to catch hippopotami in central Africa, near Lake Nyassa, at the time of the expeditions of Henry Stanley and David Livingstone. the hippopotamus feeds on grass alone, its enormous lip acts like a mowing machine, forming a path before it as its feeds. Over these paths is constructed a trap that consists of a heavy beam, five or six feet long, with a spearhead at one end, covered with poison. This weapon is hung to a forked pole by a rope that leads across the path and is held by a catch, set free as the animal treads on it.

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