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Show BROUGHT BACK PYGMY HIPPO Hunter Spent Weary Months in Jungles Jun-gles to Prove That the Species Really Existed. It seems incredible, but there exist hippopotami that do not exceed 30' Inches in height. For a long while nobody no-body believed that there were any pygmy hippos in Liberia. The natives Insisted that the Hippopotamus Lib--erlensis lived deep in the forests; but that was another reason why explorers-and explorers-and hunters shook their heads In Incredulity. In-credulity. The hippopotamus lives along the rivers, they said, and this talk about pygmies of this species lathe la-the forests Is nonsense. Nevertheless a pygmy hippo was caught as far back as 1873, and brought from Africa to the zoological gardens In Dublin. It might have convinced con-vinced the world, only it arrived In a dying condition, and perished before It could he exhibited. After that, people peo-ple toolc to doubting it again, and considered the one recorded specimen as a freak. But Carl Hagenback, the famous animal man, made up his mind, at last, that the pygmy hippo could be, and should be, introduced to man. He sent an intrepid hunter, Schom-burgk, Schom-burgk, after It, and Schomburgk, after speeding a year and a half In the jungle, jun-gle, reappeared with three pygmy beasts, two of which were at once brought to the New York zoo and placed on exhibition. New York Herald. |