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people worked well. By four o’clock in the afternoon 
the tusks and trunk of the elephant were on board the 
Leviathan, and we were again skimming down in the 
run of the silver stream. 
The day’s adventures, however, were not yet over. 
We found the hippos in a defiant and daring humour. 
Passing through herd after herd, some of the monsters 
would rise half out of the water close to us, and facing 
the canoe would plunge as though bent upon swimming 
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under the fragile craft. Bight and left, front and rear, 
the threatening animals surged and dived. 
All at once a crashing noise was heard among the 
reeds which fringed the river’s banks, past which we 
were slowly gliding. 
I heard Fred shouting : “ Shoot, master, shoot! ” and 
at the same moment there came plunging with furious 
force, from amidst the yielding dark green walls, one of 
the biggest of the mighty monsters of the river. 
The boys braced their long bamboos simultaneously 
