Text Appearing Before Image: them in too. The lances have very sharp bladt;S and areweighted at the end so that every movement of the hippo makes the wounddeeper The bladders attached to the lines float on the surface and showwhere the hippo is lying. At last, weakened by its struggles ^-^d loss ofblood the creature dies. Ropes are attached to the lance lines and the bodyis hauled ashore by many willing hands. Sometimes when a hippo is attacked at short range it will climb out otthe water and charge its enemies on land. It is a very unwise movementfor the poor creature is then much easier to kill for it is clumsy and cannotturn quickly. The natives plaster its eyes with clay or sand and then theyhave it at their mercy. Hippos are wonderfully good swimmers and moreover they are able towalk along the river beds in search of food. When they sleep they float inthe water with nothing but their nostrils sticking out. If anything alarmsthem they dive at once and when they come to the surface they show nothing m^mm^mmmmi Text Appearing After Image: HIPPOPOTAMUS HUX FIXG but their snout, eyes and ears and as the head of the hippo is very flat it cancret these sense organs out of water without showing more than two or three inches of flesh. Shooting hippos is a very difficult and unsatisfactory sport, for a riflebullet will hardly do any harm if fired into the body. The only place thatthey can be shot is in the brain which being exceedingly small and wellprotected between the ears renders the task doubly difficult. Again when ahippc dies its body sinks to the bottom at once. A hunter who was travellmg alone on a tributary of the Zambesi Rivertried to capture a small hippo but the mother was close at hand and soon
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