With Flashlight and Rifle -^ 



the coniparati\'(_'ly small luimlxir ot oiratics still remaining'. 

 Of course the Customs officials may he outwitted, if the 

 thongs are cut very thin, b\- false declarations as to their 

 nature. 



As with all animals, we fmd the giraffe either shy or 

 trusting" according to its experience of men. Far out on 

 the desert, where men are never seen, 1 found them so 

 free from timidity that I was able to approach to withm 

 about two hundred jjaces of them. I succeeded, too, in 

 discovering them by day in their haunts in the woods, 

 and in getting quite close. But usually their timidity 

 and caution do not allow of such liberties. Their keen 

 eyes, as a rule, spot a man a great way oft. A char- 

 acteristic whisking of the long bushy tails, and a moving- 

 forward of the leader, whether bull or cow, trom out of 

 the shade of the tree under which the herd are taking 

 their siesta, are the heralds of immediate tlight. In 

 spite of their awkward and clumsydooking g^iit, they 

 soon distance thtt unmounted hunter, and are lost to 

 sight. After much trouble I once succeeded in photo- 

 ijranhinGf a herd ot c^iraftes going tull-tnH. (ienerall\- 

 sp(;aking, giraftes are more difficult to })hot()graph than 

 any other animal. 



Even when the giraffes are to be seen out in the 

 open and the light is good, the ])hotographer must get 

 -quite clos(; to the herd to be able to take a picture, 

 in the midst ol jungle it is in most cases onl)' possible 

 to (^l)t.iin ])h()tographs ol a tew single s|)eciincMis that 

 have somewhat separated trom the herd. 1 had made 

 many \ain endeax'ours before I at last succeeded in 



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