WILD LIFE ACROSS THE WORLD 



This, together with other prophecies coming true, 

 made them take thought, with the result that to-day 

 one can go anywhere one likes in their country without 

 fear of molestation. 



May 31. — We went out in the boat again to explore 

 this part of the lake and came across hippo. There 

 were only three of them, and apparently they were 

 very shy, for as soon as they saw us they went off 

 some considerable distance. They watched us closely 

 until we started in pursuit, then they cleared off again, 

 we after them once more ; and so it went on for an 

 hour or two, until, in order to let them get used to us, 

 we remained stationary for some time. 



In the end, though we waited almost till nightfall, 

 the hippo would not come near us, and we had to return 

 to camp unsuccessful. 



During the night we were awakened by hearing 

 a couple of hippo grunting quite close to our tent, and 

 the next morning we were up early to see if we could 

 locate them ; but although we found their spoor quite 

 fresh, they had evidently gone back to the river. 



June I. — To-day we explored the river as far as 

 we could and saw several hippo. In one case a cow 

 was carrying her calf on her back. We also found 

 one of the places where they left the river to feed, 

 so set a flash-light camera to see if we could get a 

 photograph of them out of the water. 



The Marandat River is one of the many very 



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