1863 HIPPOPOTAMUS. The Wonderful Monster - The River Horse of the White Nile. Rare! ZZAmericanaandHistory Felix Neff - Apostle of

Felix Neff - Apostle of the Alps

with over 20 million copies of their three core works already in circulation

Probably all but two or three are initialed by Daniel Weston

Translated from the Original Tongues

the Creator did not intend that every individual human being should be highly cultivated morally and intellectually

1863 HIPPOPOTAMUS. The Wonderful Monster - The River Horse of the White Nile. Rare! ZZAmericanaandHistory Felix Neff - Apostle ofA scarce account of Bucheet, a hippopotamus captured as a calf on the White Nile by the British Consul, John Petherick. Its keeper, Ali, hailed from Pontegera, near Cairo and had previously been in Petherick's employ, assisting with the capture. Petherick had long wished to present a hippo to the British Zoological Society. In 1858 he undertook an expedition and captured Bucheet. When Petherick arrived in London, he was disappointed to find that a