hippopotami

• We passed crocodiles and hippopotami, and the many birds we had seen before. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
• It had hippopotami, and the poku fed on its banks. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I
• The exotic animals such as hippopotami, elephants and rhinoceroses that were all part of the huge show going on each night would be easy to view from anywhere in the stadium. —  xml's Blinklist.com
• But at the same place they discovered fresh traces of elephants and buffaloes, therefore the hippopotami were left unmolested, save that Harold sent a bullet amongst them, partly to let the natives hear the report of his gun, and partly to see how the animals would take it They all started to their feet at once, and stared around them with looks of stolid surprise that were almost equal to the looks of the natives, to whom fire-arms were little known, except by report. —  Black Ivory
• They were not disappointed in their expectations, for the hippopotami were very numerous in that place, and the sportsmen shot well. —  Hunting the Lions

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