A hippopotamus was shot two miles above a bank on which the ship lay a fortnight: it floated in three hours.

As the boat was towing it down, the crocodiles were attracted by the dead beast, and several shots had to be fired to keep them off.

The bullet had not entered the brain of the animal, but driven a splinter of bone into it.

A little moisture with some gas issued from the wound, and this was all that could tell the crocodiles down the stream of a dead hippopotamus; and yet they came up from miles below.

Their sense of smell must be as acute as their hearing; both are quite extraordinary.