Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-10-09

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jump into the water (they never veal
any clothes on hunt, and try to gel
the block. They swim like fish, dart
ing hundreds of yards under water, and
fearless of the crocodiles they pursue
the wounded hippo guided by the am
batch block, and seizing the rope by the
block they drag the animal near the
shore and if it rises to the surface give
it another dose of fharpoons. When the
hippo keeps in the middle of the stream
where, although the ambatch could be
reached by swimming, it could not be
worked with sufficient force for want
of leverage, the HOmraLs fasten two
ropes across the river, one slack and the
other tight. These catch the ambatch
and hold it until the Homrans lasso it
from the shore and drag1the animal in
this way to the land. Schaumann says
the Homrans are such expert swimmers
they will keep near the harpOoned hippo
following the ambatch and he has seen
more than one Jump up on the back of
the animal, catch weapons thrown by
them on shore, and infiict deep wounds
with them into the body OF the strug-
Cling creature. The hippos are much
more afraid of a man on foot than of
one or many on horseback. They will
attack horse sooner than they will a
man.
The Reiche party, with their Homrans
had more luck this year in their hunt
than they ever had before, bringing
back 102 animals and birds from the
hunting grounds of the Nile tributaries,
besides many more which they killed,
eating some and leaving others to be
eaten by the natives or other animals.
On the way back they killed many
crocodiles, and in the stomach of one
large bull crocodile, about fifteen feet
feet long, they found young hippo.
Considering that the young hippos calv
ed some years ago in London weighed
99Is pounds each one day after birth,
that crocodile must have had a severe
job gulping down that calf hippo in
Africa. 1t was not cut or chewed, but
simply pressed down into the stomach
of the crocodile.
When the hunting party begins to
move back the hippos and other young
and the dangerous animals are placed
in strong wooden boxes, perforated
with holes, and are carried by camels.
The camels 90 single file one after the
other, with long bars running from the
sides of each camel. and fastened to the
saddle of the one in front and to the
saddle of the camel in the rear. The
boxes IN which the animals are then en-
closed are put on the bars and fastened
securely in the middle between the two
camels. Besides the captured animals
Homran ct untry so or 80 goats, to fur
nish milk to the young ones. 1t takes
the milk of - goats for one baby hippo.
The hunters brought several dozen goats
of the Homrans to Marseilles, in France,
but as the railroad company there
charged 40 francs apiece for transpOrta-
ton of the goats through France, they
sold them in Marseilles for 10 francs
apiece, and fed the young animals from
that time forth on cows milk and eggs.
That is the diet at present of the young
hippos that live in the large tank in the
Aquarium where the whale first and the
seals afterwards made their home before
these odd strangers from Africa came
to be the nine days wonder of young
New Workers.