The river up which they paddled abounds in hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
We saw three hippopotami close to another of these islands. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805] Reference
It becomes much larger, and contains hippopotami, lower down. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
The hippopotami never made a mistake, but got out of our way. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference
It was still worse when it came to the turn of the hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [The Curly-Haired Hen] Reference
It swarms with hippopotami, and its shores abound with noble game. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
During high water crocodiles are found in the river, but no hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Nubia] Reference
Here hippopotami are known to exist only by their footprints on the banks. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Antelopes and hippopotami were plentiful; the former tame and easily shot. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
We passed crocodiles and hippopotami, and the many birds we had seen before. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
Not only crocodiles but hippopotami were seen by those on board the flotilla. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Crocodiles and hippopotami — Reach Faraba – Loss of one of the soldiers —. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805] Reference
We were delighted to see the evidences of buffalo and hippopotami on its banks. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
My only source of fear is the hippopotami, whose footprints I saw on the island. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
I counted at one time thirteen of them ranged along shore, and three hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805] Reference
There were six rivers to cross, full (says Isaaco) of alligators and hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
We departed early, and crossed Kirgout, a river full of hippopotami and alligators. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805] Reference
The hippopotami are more wary here than higher up, as the natives hunt them with guns. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference
This lake is probably several miles in length, and swarms with hippopotami and crocodiles. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
No one but a Barnum or a Bailey would send one a bunch of hippopotami as a token of regard. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
At one time the expedition was to die of thirst, at one time to be destroyed by hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman on the March]
They began immediately to collect tusks of hippopotami and other ivory for a second journey. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
I felt inclined to take a specimen of the tusks of the hippopotami, as they were the largest. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
So the hunters decided to wait for some other evening when the hippopotami were off guard again. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
The forests gave place to jungles, which alligators, hippopotami, and the rhinoceros, made their haunts. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
We left Bango, and proceeded to the River Loembwe, which flows to the N.N.E., and abounds in hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Naliele, sailing by day along the banks, and during the night in the middle of the stream, to avoid the hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
The beasts which they hunted at that very early period were mammoths with long woolly hair, elephants and hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria] Reference
They were suffered to go by in ominous silence -- only to fall foul of a squadron of hippopotami, who nearly washed them over. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Throughout the whole course of the river hippopotami were very abundant, and at one village a chase by the natives was witnessed. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
This is a stream of thirty yards wide, and, like the Quilo, Loange, Chikapa, and Loajima, contains both alligators and hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
We might have got deeper water in the middle, but the boatmen always keep near the banks, on account of danger from the hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
In its depths are deer in plentiful numbers, and at night it is visited by the hippopotami of the Kingani for the sake of its grass. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
His people, aware of his taste, brought to him every young antelope they could catch, and, among other things, two young hippopotami. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Troops of hippopotami could be seen disporting themselves in the forests of reeds, or plunging beneath the whitish waters of the lake. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
It was a perfect place to bathe or wash clothing without fear of crocodiles or hippopotami intruding, and for that alone I was grateful. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
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