HIPPOPOTAMUS. 
They are generally taken in pitfalls ; and the 
natives eat the flesh, which is esteemed whole- 
some. The fat makes the choicest lard; and 
is much valued as a specific for pulmonary 
complaints. The teeth are highly prized by 
dentists, for making artificial teeth ; being 
harder as well as whiter than ivory, and far 
less liable to become yellow. The skin, when 
dried, is of an impenetrable hardness, and used 
by the natives to make bucklers. 
, To a herd of females there is but a single 
nmle ; and they bring forth only one at a time, 
:which~ they suckle in the water. Their pre- 
tended enmity with the Crocodile, is erroneous. 
. . Scaiirus, during his sdileship, exhibited to 
the Romans five Crocodiles, and one Hippopo- 
1, tamus, in a temporary lake ; and Augustus pre- 
j| duced one at his triumph over Cleopatra. It has 
been asserted, that the Hippopotamus is found 
>5 in the Indus ; but this wants confirmation, and 
[ is even denied by modern travellers. It is, un | 
p{ questionably, tlie Behemoth of Job ; ^' who," 
,gj Pennant observes, " has most admirably de- 
scribed it's manners, foodj and haunts. 
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