Dead hippos 
CHAPTER XIV 
THE HIPPOPOTAMUS 
By F. J. JACKSON 
THE hippopotamus (//. 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 
