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present day are found in India and more particularly 

 in Africa. Delegorgue, in his account of his explora- 

 tions in Africa, describes a lake which was inhabited 

 by a hundred hippopotamuses, and within a space of 

 3,000 (?) he found more than six hundred elephants. 

 On one occasion he met with from three to four 

 hundred hyasna-dogs, and again with troups of from 

 four to five hundred quaggas. Livingstone relates 

 that he frequently saw herds of more than four 

 thousand antelopes passing. One of his descriptions 

 of this wild part of the earth runs somewhat thus : 

 " hundreds of zebras and buffaloes were seen 

 crossing the plains; numbers of elephants were 

 seen feeding, and their trunks alone showed any 

 signs of movement. I should have liked to have 

 photographed the picture, for scenes like this will 

 vanish when firearms are brought into use, and 

 will then be forgotten. It is perfectly marvellous 

 what immense numbers of animals are to be seen 

 crossing the country. I could fancy myself trans- 

 ported back to the days when the giant sloth 

 roamed about the primeval forests." ' 



Gaudry goes on to say : ' However splendid 

 such pictures may be, old Greece could offer even 

 grander scenes. In fact, while the whole of Africa 

 is the home of but one species of elephant, Pikermi 



