While swimming in the lake, he [David Rand] was in turn startled by a great beast that rose from the shallows ... Wal-Lah, the hippocampus.
History
Wal-Lah the hippo resided in the Belgian Congo during the 1930s, home of the jungle adventurer Ka-Zar. Wal-Lah was not active in Ka-Zar's various adventures and its activities are entirely unrecorded.[citation needed]