Zoological Society bulletin . its. My sergeant. Momoro,started at once with a few boys,to reach the place the samenight, and keep guard to pre-vent the meat-hungry nativesfrom killing the Hippo. At last I had succeeded!Against the prophecies of Euro-peans, Liberians and natives!And only a few days beforeTawe Dadwe told me: It is im-possible to catch a Mwe! Ithas never been done, and theyhave only been shot after theyhave been caught in the pits. They are toodangerous. Many a hunter has been killed. Youwhite men know a lot, but here you are tryingsomething that is impossible. Early the next mor
Zoological Society bulletin . its. My sergeant. Momoro,started at once with a few boys,to reach the place the samenight, and keep guard to pre-vent the meat-hungry nativesfrom killing the Hippo. At last I had succeeded!Against the prophecies of Euro-peans, Liberians and natives!And only a few days beforeTawe Dadwe told me: It is im-possible to catch a Mwe! Ithas never been done, and theyhave only been shot after theyhave been caught in the pits. They are toodangerous. Many a hunter has been killed. Youwhite men know a lot, but here you are tryingsomething that is impossible. Early the next morning I reached the night a fence had been built around thehole, and the animal was let out. It was abeautiful full-grown bull, in the prime of hislife. Nothing succeeds like success! Six daysafter that, the second one was caught; this timea two-year-old cow. A week later, the third,a young three-quarter-grown bull was I had three animals, at three differentplaces. Macca, where the little cow was CARRYING A PYGMY HIPPOHippo transport passing through a village 884 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN I decided should be my central collecting sta-tion ; and we started to bring the animals there. Now the real trouble commenced. The Golahpeople refused to carry them! For the big ani-mals, I needed at least forty men each, to cutroads and carry. Had it not been for the unselfish assistance Ihad from the Liberian Government, which hadappointed me Major on the Geographical Staff,I never would have been able to bring my ex-pedition to a satisfactory end. Nobody can imagine the enormous difficultiesof the transport of those heavy animals, whichwe had to carry in self-invented native-madebaskets, through the roadless hinterland of Li-beria. From the farthest place inland, where Icaught three animals, it took me, even after themen had cut the roads, twelve days to reach thefirst river on which I could use boat-transport tothe Coast. A native king, Gongzoo, had, on th
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