The Tropical World Aspects of man and nature in the equatorial regions of the globe.
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.
Behemoth--Its Diminishing Number and Contracting Empire--Its Ugliness--A Rogue Hippopotamus or Solitaire--Dangerous Meeting--Intelligence and Memory of the Hippopotamus--Methods employed for Killing the Hippopotamus--Hippopotamus-Hunting on the Teoge--The Hippopotamus in Regent’s Park--A Young Hippo born in Paris 417