EFFICIENT PREPARATION IN AMMUNITION AND ARMS. 339 
Here a native quickly brought me a stout buffalo-rein from 
my horse’s neck, which I passed through the opening in the thick 
skin, and moored Behemoth to a tree. I then took my rifle, and 
sent a shot through her head, and she was numbered with the dead.” 
In explanation of one part of this description, the difficulty 
DRIVING CROCODILES INTO THE WATER. 
experienced by the hunter in holding by her tail will be easily 
understood by those who have examined the member in ques¬ 
tion. The tail of the hippopotamus is a flattened, naked affair, 
about two feet long, as thick as a man’s wrist, and slightly fringed 
at the extremity with a few long bristles. If we imagine this tail 
flung about in the death-agony of a full-grown hippopotamus, it will 
