Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



method to be pursued in getting him the two 

 hundred yards or so into the bank. 



The savages said, " I know ! " 



Off some twenty went, " stark oh ! " half 

 swimming, half floating, each man on his ambatch 

 log, towards the carcase. Meanwhile I had seen 

 another big hippo, and having questioned them 

 closely as to whether it was possible to secure 

 the two, and being answered in the affirmative, 

 proceeded to add him to my list. As luck would 

 have it, the pack of savages who had started off 

 after the first dead hippo were carried by the 

 flow of the stream right in the way of the second 

 hippo, who luckily happened to be in his death 

 throes. However, I covered him with my rifle 

 in case he should have enough life left in him to 

 turn nasty, but up went his legs, and he ** kufa-ed," 

 as they say, whilst the swimmers were within a 

 yard or two of him all round. 



I turned to the savagres who had remained on 

 the bank with me, and intimated that it was a 

 wonder that none of the people in the water had 

 got hurt, and they said, " I know ! " 



Well, the swimmers tied the rope to the leg 

 of the aforesaid dead hippo, and after a lot of 

 shouting and shoving got him off the rocks and 

 started him on his way to the bank. 



I remarked that I hoped they had got hold of 

 the other end of the rope, and they replied, " I 

 know ! " 



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