TO LAKE NAIVASHA 275 
Mr. Roosevelt’s big bull hippo 
From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 
There were others in the lake. One day we saw two 
playing together near the shore; and at first we were all of 
us certain that it was some big water snake. It was not until 
we were very close that we made out the supposed one big 
snake to be two others; it was rather interesting, as giving 
one of the explanations of the stories that always appear 
about large water snakes, or similar monsters, existing in 
almost every lake of any size in a wild country. On another 
day I shot another near shore; he turned over and over, 
splashing and tumbling; but just as we were about to 
grasp him, he partially recovered and dived to safety in the 
reeds. 
On the second day we went out in the launch I got my 
hippo. We steamed down the lake, not far from the shore, 
for over ten miles, dragging the big clumsy row-boat, in 
