THE BEHEMOTH. 3*9 



While our friends are pushing their way across the stream, suppose I take a few 

 minutes to tell you something about the hippopotamus (hippopotami**), which is 

 undoubtedly the behemoth of the Bible. 



The animal is believed to inhabit nearly all the great rivers of Africa. Formerly 



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THE HIPPOPOTAMI'S 



it was met with as far north as Egypt, but its limit in that direction is now Abyssinia. 

 Away back in the remote ages of antiquity, it was common to Europe and Asia, but 

 in its wild state it lives alone in the Dark Continent. 



The period during which the hippopotamus can remain under water has never 



