CHAPTER XXVIII. 



THE RHINOCEROS AND HIPPOPOTAMUS. 



Our African adventurers plume themselves evidently upon 

 having out-Heroded the Herods of all previous Romance of 

 Hunting — in having capped the climax of dashing extrava- 

 gance, by combatting both behemoth and the unicorn in 

 their own meadows and beneath forests as hoar as their 

 renown. It certainly constitutes a very striking element 

 of true romance — this picture of two young men penetrating 

 the most ancient solitudes of earth, to battle, single-handed, 

 with these sole representatives of monsters before the Flood, 

 whose huge remains noAV fill the generations with such awe ! 



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