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THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT. 
out of the water, and when he retires into it again. He sleeps on shore, eats greens, 
but not flesh, and passes his days under water. He is here caught in pits and snares, 
and furnishes food for the table of Malek Tombol.” 
Mariette Bey’s ‘ Monuments of Upper Egypt,’ 1877 :— 
P. 98. “ In the tomb of Tih, a servant of the household of the deceased is hooking a 
hippopotamus with a sort of harpoon.” 
P. 118. “The hippopotamus formerly existed close to Memphis, i. e. almost as low 
down as Cairo. Moreover, let it be borne in mind that in the days of Abd-el-Latyf 
(1190 of the present era) hippopotami were still to be found in the Damietta branch 
of the Nile.”— W. E. de W. 
