CHAPTER XXXII

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THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.

Behemoth--Its Diminishing Number and Contracting Empire--Its Ugliness--A Rogue Hippopotamus or Solitaire--Dangerous Meeting--Intelligence and Memory of the Hippopotamus--Methods employed for Killing the Hippopotamus--Hippopotamus-Hunting on the Teoge--The Hippopotamus in Regent’s Park--A Young Hippo born in Paris 417

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