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The hipp are the ubiquitous riding animals of Ganymede.
Amherst had served four terrestrial years on the watery planet as collector for Cree, Inc., moving from town to town gathering the precious medicinal moss, to take it finally to Hydropole, the rocket port, for trans-shipment to Earth.
He was one of the hundreds of such collectors for the giant company, each with his own route, each picking his own way from town to town, riding his hipp (the sea-horse of Ganymede, Hippocampus Catamiti) through the wild torrents of the afterfloods, past mountains whose locked valleys were apt to spill countless millions of tons of water upon him with no warning save the crash of the bursting mountain walls.
Isaac Asimov fans may recall his 1953 short story Sally (1953):
"You're exaggerating, Jake. The automatobuses get turned off every night."
Another early mention is ascribed to Henry Kuttner writing in The Little Things in 1946:
He hopped one of the robot buses when it stopped.
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