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A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone’s Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

CHAPTER VIII
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A few miles below Chikumbula's we saw a white hippopotamus in a herd.

Our men had never seen one like it before.

It was of a pinkish white, exactly like the colour of the Albino.

It seemed to be the father of a number of others, for there were many marked with large light patches.
The so-called _white_ elephant is just such a pinkish Albino as this hippopotamus.

A few miles above Kariba we observed that, in two small hamlets, many of the inhabitants had a similar affection of the skin.


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