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Title: Hunting and hunted in the Belgian Congo
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cooper, Reginald Davey
Subjects: Hunting -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Yes ! every one regarded the mule with awe, as, all unconscious of the role he was playing, he continued to graze away quietly until I sent the syce to get him into camp lest some of these people might take it into their heads to put an arrow into him. At length the sun fell and one by one the people crept back to their huts tired out with the excitement of the day. That evening the great branches of the tree overhung the dancing flames of the camp fires, mosquitoes in millions swarmed around, the heavens were ablaze with stars.Now and again the night birds sighed overhead, the guttural snort of the hippopotamus; as it crashed through the grass by the river; sounded as though in the camp instead of a half-mile away. 81 G HUNTING AND HUNTED IN BELGIAN CONGO I noticed several pieces of stick with curious looking chunks of meat toasting on them around the fires, and on interrogating the headman I found that some of the carriers had recovered the snake killed that morning and brought it on with them. 82
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CHAPTER VIII ELEPHANT AND HIPPOPOTAMUS Next morning I arose early, by starlight in fact, and after breakfast proceeded to give out blankets and shirts to the boys. During the day I went down to the river or marsh, and after going along the bank for a mile or so I came close on a hippopotamus with its huge snout on the surface of the water. I aimed at the nostril, but apparently only succeeded in tickling the beast, as it simply disappeared beneath the water and presently dashed up the bank into the tall grass opposite. However, later on I brought down a line old cow with the•450. She stood out on a spit about forty yards off. I gave her the right and left barrels, down she went, and in less than ten minutes a delighted chattering mob of porters and Shinzis were engaged in cutting up the meat.The cook was soon on the scene with tins in which to collect the fat. I did not taste the flesh, but the fat was most excellent, and is useful in many ways. Hippopotamus, Kiboko in Swahili, abound in the upp

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