108 MIGHTY ANIMALS 



since the time of the Titanotheres, but which still 

 did not look as though he would some day become 

 the most beautiful and valuable animal in the world. 



Nor was America the only country inhabited by 

 queer animals during this period in the earth's 

 history. Some very remarkable creatures were 

 then living in Egypt. One of them was the largest 

 mammal of his time. No one ever heard of this beast 

 until 1902, when his bones were found near the 

 palace in which the Egyptian princess, Arsinoe, sister 

 of Cleopatra, used to live. The man who found 

 these bones decided he would name the creature 

 himself. So he added the word "therium" (beast) to 

 Arsinoe and made the name Arsinoitherium. If 

 Arsinoe had been living, he would never have dared 

 do such a thing. For what princess would tolerate 

 having as a namesake an animal over five feet tall, 

 with a short neck, long legs, broad, thick feet, two 

 high broad horns sticking out from his face, and two 

 more short horns above them ? 



But when the Arsinoitherium was alive there had 

 never been a princess on earth. The pyramids of 

 Egypt seem so old to us we are awed when we think 



