THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 
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One of the wounded sufferers shortly after' 
wards rushed to the woods, stamping 
foaming with pain and rage, but soon slack' 
ened his pace, and ultimately stopped 
loss of blood. Nothing can convey an id®^ 
of the tortured monster’s roars, the woods and 
country resounding for miles with the liideoa^ 
sound. A party set out in pursuit of him, 
on their approach, he again took to the watc^’j 
This was the only instance in which one ® 
these animals had been known to take to 
land after being wounded ; their general hak*^ 
is to get into a hole in the bed of the rivc*^' 
there to die : and, as the natives informed 
countrymen, his companions will there 
round their expiring comrade, and not all*’'' 
him to rise to the surface. This stateifl®'’* 
seems to be confirmed by the circumstan*'^ 
that their carcases are never found till 
are in a state of putrefaction. ^ 
As all attempts to take a hippopotamus h^ 
