BEHEMOTH AND THE UNICORN. 601 
exhibits its prodigious strength in a more formidable light 
than any thing else we have yet heard of it. He says, 
speaking of the black rhinoceros: 
‘They fear no enemy but man, and are fearless of him when 
wounded and pursued. The lion flies before them like a cat; 
the mohohu, the largest species, has been known even to kill 
the elephant, by thrusting his horn into his ribs. 
But Harris’s account of behemoth is too graphic to be 
omitted or amended. Here it is: 
Of all the mammalia, whose portraits, drawn from ill-stuffed 
specimens, have been foisted upon the world, the Behemoth 
has perhaps been the most ludicrously misrepresented. I 
sought in vain for the colossal head—for those cavern-like 
jaws, garnished with elephantine tusks—or those ponderous 
feet with which “the formidable and ferocious quadruped”’ is 
wont “to trample down whole fields of corn during a single 
night.” Defenceless and inoffensive, his shapeless carcass is 
but feebly supported upon short and disproportioned legs, and 
his belly almost trailing upon the ground, he may not inaptly 
be likened to an overgrown “prize pig.” The color is pinkish 
brown, clouded: and freckled with a darker tint. Of many 
that we shot, the largest measured less than five feet at the 
shoulder ; and the reality falling so lamentably short of the 
monstrous conception I had formed, the “river horse’ or 
“sea, cow,” was the first, and indeed the only South African 
quadruped in which I felt disappointed. 
Our next movement brought us to the source of the Oori 
or Limpopo—the gareep of Moselekatse’s deminions. Led 
by many fine streams from the Cashan range, this enchanting 
river springs into existence as if by magic; and rolling its 
deep and tranquil waters between tiers of weeping willows, 
through a passage in the mountain barrier, takes its course 
to the northward. Here we enjoyed the novel diversion of 
hippopotamus shooting, that animal abounding in the Lim- 
popo; and dividing the empire with its amphibious neighbor, 
