THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA 



largest hippo tusks on record reached the enormous size 

 of thirty-one and a half inches in length, with a girth of 

 nine inches at the base. The hide of an old bull hippo is 

 exceedingly thick and weighs, just after having been taken 

 off the animal, from four hundred to five hundred pounds. 

 In spite of all the persecutions to which the hippo is 

 nowadays exposed, he will probably be the last of the big 

 African game animals to become extinct, being still very 

 numerous in most of the large lakes, streams, and swamps 

 of the greater part of Africa. 



