"A gift to Queen Elizabeth from Abbas Pasha, the Viceroy of Egypt, Obaysch made such a splash upon his arrival in England in the spring of 1850 that ripples of hippomania were felt across the pond." https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/10569/louis-st-mars/the-hippopotamus-polka
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