The Camel--Its Paramount Importance in the great Tropical Sandwastes--Its Organisation admirably adapted to its mode of Life--Beauty of the Giraffe--Its Wide Range of Vision-- Pleasures of Giraffe Hunting--The Antelopes--The Springbok-- The Reedbok--The Duiker--The Atro--The Gemsbok--The Klippspringer--The Koodoo--The Gnu--The Indian Antelope-- The Nylghau--The Caffrarian Buffalo--The Indian Buffalo and the Tiger--Dr. Livingstone’s Escape from a solitary Buffalo-- Swimming Feats of the Bhain--The Zebra--The Quagga--The Douw 399 CHAPTER XXXII. THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. Behemoth--Its Diminishing Number and Contracting Empire--Its Ugliness--A Rogue Hippopotamus or Solitaire--Dangerous Meeting--Intelligence and Memory of the Hippopotamus--Methods employed for Killing the Hippopotamus--Hippopotamus-Hunting on the Teoge--The Hippopotamus in Regent’s Park--A Young Hippo born in Paris 417 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE RHINOCEROS. Brutality of the Rhinoceros--The Borelo--The Keitloa--The Monoho--The Kobaaba--Difference of Food and Disposition between the Black and the White 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 423 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE ELEPHANT. Love 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--Use of the Tusks still Probmatical--The Rogue-Elephant--Sagacity of the Elephant--The African Elephant--Tamed in Ancient Times--South African Elephant-Hunting--Hair-Breadth Escapes--Abyssinian Elephant-Hunters--Cutting up of an Elephant--The Asiatic Elephant--Vast Numbers destroyed in Ceylon--Major Rogers-- Elephant-Catchers--Their amazing Dexterity--The Corral--Decoy Elephants--Their astonishing Sagacity--Great Mortality among the Captured Elephants--Their Services 431 CHAPTER XXXV. TROPICAL FELIDÆ.