John, Jack and Mathew hurried after the hippo. It went into the river, and when the boys tried to follow it in a canoe, he rose out of the water under the canoe and nearly tipped it over, but in doing so, Jack, who was holding a noose, neatly lassoed him. Then the boys swam to land, slipped the end of the noose trough a cage bar, and tied it to a truck. Even so, the struggling 2.5 ton hippo was hard to pull into the cage, so John, who had got into the truck and was now driving, shot the hippo with a syringe gun, which is a gun loaded with darts which had a chemical inside of them, which can kill you if to much is used, but the right amount will make an animal sleepy and easy to handle. Once John shot it, the hippo stopped struggling and was easily brought into the cage and driven to camp. Suddenly, the boys thought about their father. They looked around and saw him lying face-down on the ground.
Peter was going on a trip to the Galapagos islands (a group of islands about 2,600 miles away from America, famous for having many animals on it that only live there, such as the Galapagos tortoise and the Marine iguana). One night, he woke up in the midde of a storm, with his boat sinking! The boat didn't have any lifeboats, so Peter grabbed a gun, bullets, gunpowder and a bag of corn, threw a barrel overboard, dived in after it, and swam to one of the Galapagos islands that was nearby, resting on the barrel when he was tired. Unluckily, it was uninhabited (nobody lived on it), but he at least survived the storm. Two and a half years later, he lived in a large cave, had a pet Galapagos hawk (a large, brown hawk breed. The main predator of the Galapagos islands) called Flyer and owned a large cornfield. Galapagos Hawk
I can't imagine being in a canoe with a hippo nearby and underneath! Sounds like they did the best they could wrangling it. I can't wait to read what comes next.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine it either, grandma.
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