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 romancc—this picture of two young men penetrating 
the most ancient solitudes of earth, to battle, single-handed, 
with these sule representatives of monsters before the Flood, 
whose huge remains now fill the generations with such awe! 
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