■^ Giraffes 



killed about three hundred giraffes near Lake N garni in 

 South Africa. When one is told that even then the 

 skins were worth /, 4 to ^,6 sterling, in order to be 

 made into whips tor oxen, there is no room tor surprise 

 at their wholesale slaughter. 



This number was, however, as Mr. P)ryden expressly 

 states. ow\\ a small one compared t() that ot those killed 



A WOUNDEIi BILI, i.lKAM'K AT CLOSE (QUARTERS 



south of the Zaml:)esi. There, as has already been re- 

 marked, as in German East Africa, the animal is already 

 hunted, and will be perhaps yet more hunted, for purposes 

 of trade with South Africa ; it is thus doubly to be desired 

 that a number should be saved for scientitic ends in good 

 time. The invention of long-range, smokeless, small- 

 calibre rirtes has of course facilitated the destruction ot the 

 giraffe. Often those that are not killed upon the spot 

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