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Show Too Mny Hippopotami. Hippopotami In the Zambesi river, which In the vicinity of Victoria falls, is coming into uso for transportation transpor-tation purposes, are causing a lot of trouble. A Livingstone correspondent of the Bulawayo Chronicle writes: "The hippo have again become very troublesomo on tho Zambesi. Several boats have been upset, causing one fatality and some narrow escapes. One man who had gone out had his boat overturned close to tho edge of .the falls and It was only by tho most strenuous effort that he and tho boy ho had with him were not swept over the Hp. As It was, they managed to reach Cataract Island, where they were obliged to spend the night, remaining re-maining there until they were rescued on tho folowlng morning. "Four of the civil commissioner's messengers wore upset while paddling in one of the government boats on a recent date, and one of their number was drowned, while the boat was smashed to pieces. The following day Mr. Gavuzzl and a friend wero thrown Into the water when crossing the river, but managed to regain their boat. "Hippo, from any sentimental point of view, are hardly the sort of things to be preserved as pets on a portion of tho river where' there is constant traffic, and it is to be hoped that every effort will be made to exterminate extermi-nate them beforo more serious accidents acci-dents occur." |
