formation: how let out and hauled in--The Bison ropes


XLIV.--PICTURES FROM WATER.

Interesting discoveries--Microscopic pictures transmitted from a
distance--Picture made of a landscape and persons afar off--Picture
of swan-vessels and passengers--How effected--Bottom of the sea
rendered visible


XLV.--THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.

Invaluable--Antipathy to human beings--Hippopotamus'
hide--Impervious to water--Resistance to destroying forces--All
parts of the animal utilised--Parts subservient to the
beautiful--Hippopotamus' land--Numerous herds--Their keepers--How
attired--The herb antipathetic to hippopotami--How
discovered--Experiment with the young beast--Antipathetic solution
keeps animals away from cities--They love fresh-water rivers--The
Aoe waters prejudicial to man--Mode of rearing
Hippopotami--Precautions adopted--Why they have not been able to
rear animal in Western Europe--Recommendations--Habits of the
animal--The hippopotami--dance--How the young one is separated from
the mother--How a hippopotamus is removed from the herd--The food
of the hippopotamus in general


XLVI.--WILD ANIMALS.