A CHANGE OF BASE 



THE CROCK MEASURED SEVENTY-TWO INCHES IN GIRTH BACK OF THE 



FORE-LEGS 



the final death convulsions were sufficient to joggle 

 him into the stream, and I feared he was lost. All 

 streams here have a strong current and are roily. He 

 floated down a little way and swung, belly up, into an 

 eddy on my side of the river. Great luck! 



The negroes would not go near the water, but Cun- 

 inghame fearlessly waded in and fastened the big safari 

 rope to his jaw. We cut away the papyrus that thickly 

 fringed the river, and forty men hauled him out upon the 

 bank. He was ten feet nine inches long, and two feet 

 or more of his tail had been bitten off by a hippopotamus. 

 His hide also showed two punctures from hippo tusks. 

 Hippos are granivorous and would not attempt a 



