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Show BROUGHT BACK PYGMY HIPPO 1 Hunter Spent Weary Month In Jun-gles Jun-gles to Prove That the Speclei Really Existed. It seems Incredible, but there exist hippopotami that do not exceed .10 Inches In height. Tor n long while n't-body n't-body bellewd that there were any pygmy hippos In Liberia. The natives Insisted thnt the Hippopotamus Lib-erlensls Lib-erlensls lived deep In the forests; hut that was another reason why explorers nnd hunters shook their heads In In-credulity. In-credulity. The hippopotamus lives along the rivers, they said, and tldi talk nbout pygmies of this species lu the forests Is nonsense. Nevertheless n pygmy hippo wn rniight ns far buck as 187.1, nnd brought from Africa to the zoological gardens In Dublin. It might have con-vluced con-vluced the world, only It arrived In n dying condition, nnd perished before It could be exhibited. After that, pen-pie pen-pie took to doubting It ngnln, and rnnsldered the one recorded specimen as n freak. Hut Carl Ilngenhack, thn famous animal man, mnde up his mind. nt Inst, thnt the pygmy hippo could be, nnd tbouhl he, Introduced to man. lie sent nn Intrepid hunter. Schnm-hurgk. Schnm-hurgk. after It. and Srliomburgk, nfter pcr.dlng a year nnd n half In the Jun-gle, Jun-gle, reappeared with three pygmy liensts, two of which wee nt once brought to the New York 7.00 nnd placed on exhibition. New York Mer-aid. |
