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Show NEW IN THE ANIMAL WORLD "Okapi" Astonished Explorers, and Only a Few Specimens Have Ever Been Obtained. fioine time before 1 S!K), Stuniey, the explorer, had word from the pigmy negroes of a new beast In the Impenetrable Impene-trable depths of the virgin forest which borders the Somlikl river in the Belgian Congo. The WanibattI natives described it as a species of donkey and called it "Attl." From their further fur-ther description, It seemed to be a hoofed animal of considerable size, which lived upon leaves. In 1809 Sir Harry Johnston himself saw the pigmies, pig-mies, who fully confirmed what Stanley Stan-ley had already told him, but added that the strange beast was striped like a zebra. In 1P01 h Swedish officer, M. Karl Krlkson. obtained a complete skin and two skulls, which he sent to Sir Harry Johnston, who then believed the beast to he of the giraffe tribe, previously found In a fossil state in (ireece. It was. however, proved conclusively that although i? the giraffe family It was not the nninttt of ancient Greece, but a new beast altogether. It was subsequently sub-sequently given the name of 'okapl." Nn more than a dozen specimens of this wonderful beast have been seen se-en red. |