The sight of his four feet in the air fifty yards from the canoe, instead of reassuring my crew, so scared them that they all jumped overboard and swam ashore. Luckily, I had three or four soldiers with me, by whose help I managed to secure him. His curved teeth, measured on the convex, were thirty-two and a half inches long, and one of his straight lower teeth eighteen and a half inches — the other, which was broken, measuring somewhat less. The best way of securing a hippo is to approach him as near as possible in the canoe directly he is wounded.

Provided with a long sounding pole and in deep water, he can be approached without danger, and a cord made fast to him while still struggling. What is not generally recognised with regard to the hippopotamus is that his short legs and small feet, compared with the