Dead hippos 



CHAPTER XIV 



THE HIPPOPOTAMUS 

 BY F. J. JACKSON 



THE hippopotamus (Jf. amphibius), known to the Swahili 

 people as ' Kiboko,' is found nearly everywhere in East Africa 

 where there is a sufficiency of water. 



In 1885 hippos were very plentiful in the river Tana, at 

 the mouth, and for a few miles further up, but I am told that 

 they have since then been either killed off by the Wapokomo, 

 or been driven away, and have taken up their quarters either 

 in the Ozi river or the salt-water creeks. They are still, however, 

 very plentiful in the upper waters of this river beyond Koro- 

 Koro, where the Wapokomo dare not go to hunt them for fear 

 of other natives more warlike than themselves.. In the Ozi, 

 near Kipini, at the mouth of the river, they are to be found in 

 fair numbers, and again further up beyond Kau, as also in the 



