EFFICIENT PREPARATION IN AMMUNITION AND ARMS. 



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" Here a native quickly brought me a stout buffalo-rein from 

 my horse's neck, which I passed through the opening in the thick 

 skin, and moored Behemoth to a tree. I then took my rifle, and 

 sent a shot through her head, and she was numbered with the dead." 



In explanation of one part of this description, the difficuhy 



DRIVING CROCODILES INTO THE WATER. 



experienced by the hunter in holding by her tail will be easily 

 understood by those who have examined the member in ques- 

 tion. The tail of the hippopotamus is a flattened, naked affair, 

 about two feet long, as thick as a man's wrist, and slightly fringed 

 at the extremity with a few long bristles. If we imagine this tail 

 flung about in the death-agony of a full-grown hippopotamus, it will 



