HIPPOPOTAMUS SHOT.

brother William and I started with the photographic camera, intending to take its photograph. On arriving at the place we found a ''hippo " in a large pool, rising, as is the habit of these animals, to the surface to breathe, and quickly disappearing again. The Arabs declared, however, that this was another animal ; and that the one Colvin had shot was lying dead at the bottom of the river, and would soon rise to the surface. We waited a long time, hoping that this would be the case ; and to pass the time I fished, but with indifferent success. I saw a number of turtles, which kept coming up to the top of the water, but could not catch one, and only managed to hook a gamoot of seven pounds.

Colvin left the pool, and went off with Aylmer. The latter shot a mehedehet and a very fine buck nellut ; and in returning to camp in the evening, Colvin obtained a snap-shot at a leopard, which he unfortunately missed ; this was the more unlucky, as it was the first time any of us had had a shot at one. My brother Arthur went down to the pool where the ''hippo" was, and, as there was no sign of Colvin's animal, shot our friend of the morning. Either it was the same one Colvin had fired at, and not killed ; or else Colvin had wounded one, which managed to keep out of our sight by remaining under the bushes which grew very thick on one bank of the river, and overhung the water. At any rate, we saw no signs of any other, and, in fact, saw no more hippopotami during the remainder of our stay in the country. The following morning we found my brother's "hippo" floating, and, after towing it to land, took its photograph ; it proved to be an old bull, with enormous tusks which had grown through the upjer lip.

It is often very difficult, in shooting hippopotami, to determine whether or not your shot has been successful, as, hit or miss, the animal at once sinks below the surface, to float after