Xvi CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



THE CAMEL. 



The Ship of the Desert — Paramount Importance of the Camel on the Great 

 Tropical Sand-wastes — His Organisation admirably adapted to his Mode of 

 Life — Horrors and Beauties of the Desert — The Camel an Instrument of 



Freedom The Robber Bedouin — Immemorial Thraldom of the Camel — His 



Unamiable Character — Excuses that may be urged in his behalf . Page 41 7 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 



THE GIEAPrE AND THE ZEBRA. 



Beauty of the Giraffe— Its Wide Range of Vision — Use of its Horns— Giraffe Hunt- 

 ing—The Giraffes of the Zoological Gardens— The Quagga —The Douw — The 

 Zebra — Its Lamentable Wailings — Its Inaecessible Retreats . ,423 



CHAPTER XXXVni. 



THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 



Behemoth — Its Diminishing Numbers and Contracting Empire — Its Ugliness — 

 A Rogue Hippopotamus or Solitaire — Dangerous Meeting — Intelligence and 

 Memory of the Hippopotamus — Methods employed for killing the Hippopota- 

 mus — Hippopotamus Hunting on the Teoge — The Hippopotamus in Regent's 

 Park — A Young Hippo born in Paris ..... 432 



CHAPTER XXXIX, 



THE RHIKOCEROS. 



Brutality of the Rhinoceros — The Borelo — The Keitloa — The Monoho — The 

 Kobaaba — Difference of Food and Disposition between the Black and the Wliitc 

 Rhinoceros — Incarnation of Ugliness — Acute Smell and Hearing — Defective 

 Vision — The Buphaga Africana — Paroxysms of Rage — Parental Affection — 

 Nocturnal Habits — Rhinoceros-hunting — Adventures of the Chase — Narrow 

 Escapes of Messrs. Oswell and Andersson — The Indian Rhinoceros— The Sumatran 

 Rhinoceros — The Javanese Rhinoceros — Its involuntary Suicide . 440 



CILAPTER XL. 



THE ELEPHANT. 



Lore of Solitude and Pusillanimity — Miraculous Escape of an English Officer — 

 Sagacity of the Elephant in ascending Hills — Organisation of the Stomach — 

 The Elephant's Trunk— Uso of its Tusks stUl Problematical — The Rogue- 

 Elephant — Sagacity of the Elephant — The African Elephant — Tamed in 



A. .„;,.,» t;, ..,.., c,„.,», Af,.,-,,.,,T Klophant-hunting — Hair-breadth Escapes — 



