CHAPTER X.

THE LARGE MILK-GIVERS WHICH HAVE CONQUERED THE WORLD BY STRENGTH AND INTELLIGENCE 256

PICTURE-HEADING--Animals which lived in Europe during the warm periods before the Glacial Cold. On the right, _Deinotherium_, _Mastodon_; in background, _Helladotherium_, ancient giraffes; on the left, _Hippopotamus_, _Tapir_, _Rhinoceros_, _Hyæna_; in the tree, _Pithecus pentelicus_. All these animals, except the giraffe, were living in England in the late Tertiary Period. (From various sources.)