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HIPPOPOTAMUS HUNTING. 



it. They are always very willing to assist a hunter who is out for hippo- 

 potamus, for they are very fond of its meat. Colonel Roosevelt treated his 

 native gunbearers to a feast on hippopotamus fat and meat, and after the 

 huge animals were pulled high and dry the flesh was cut into small pieces by 

 the hyena-like hungry aboriginals and eaten raw, while Prof. Edmund Heller, 

 the skilled taxidermist of the party, went to work right away to preserve the 

 hides for the Smithsonian Institution and to scrape the flesh from the bones 

 so as to get their skeletons in good shape for the museum. 



Another illustration shows the natives at work pulling the beast along 

 after it was landed. The picture and the great number of natives required to 



Photo., Underwood. 



DRAGGING THE HIPPO TO SHORE. 



