THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 
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''^as retreating, there would have been a very 
Sorrowful account of the foot hunters that day. 
^fter having dispatched him, I was curious to 
what wound the shot had given to operate 
violently on so huge an animal, and I 
’doubted not it was in the brain ; but it 
Wd struck him nowhere but in one of the 
J'orns, of which it had carried off about an 
*^ch, and thus occasioned a concussion, which 
l^^d stunned him for a minute, till the bleed- 
had recovered him.” 
THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 
Of all the animals classed under the order 
Pachydermata, or thick-skinned, the hip- 
l^'^potamus is the most clumsy and unwieldy, 
perhaps of all the quadrupeds, strictly 
speaking, he has the largest mouth. His 
^'^ormous and unshapely head is thick and 
