194 THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 
inform them if any bodies should float oi’ 
shore ; but it was soon found that no relianc® 
was to be placed on the word of these peopl®' 
when a savoury repast might be gained M 
forfeiting it. Our countrymen discovered 
head of a hippopotamus, the body of whi^^’ 
had been conveyed away and eaten. Th^y 
presently came upon a party of natives cu*"' 
ting up the body of another, which they 
mediately took possession of and conveyed 
the schooner, to the no small disappointm^^^ 
of about three hundred Blacks on the opposi*'^ 
side of the river. In this animal three 
ket-balls had penetrated through the hi^^' 
which was_ an inch and a half thick, 
lodged between the ribs. The beast was 
small size, the head, without the 
weighing only two hundred and six pounds- 
