With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



sink aftervvcirds in the thorny acacia-woocls a few days 

 later, there to fall victims to the vultures and hycenas. 



A. H. Neumann, the well-known English elephant- 

 hunter, remarks truly that he has never heard a sound 

 from a giraffe. I also have never heard them utter a 

 cry or even snort. The giraffe appears really to be dumb, 

 an attribute that is not shared by many, it any, other 

 animals so far as I know. Neumann says, as I do, that 

 these wonderful animal-giants exist only in large numbers 

 in the vast East African [)lains because they cannot 

 be hunted there by mounted hunters on account of the 

 climate. 



Dr. Heinroth, one of our most distinguished zoologists, 

 tells me that he has sometimes heard a low bleating sound 

 made by the giraffe bulls in the Berlin Zoological Gardens. 

 I leave it to be decided whether this sound is made only 

 by the im})risoned giraffes or perhaps by the young ones. 



It is with the Q:reatest caution that the cjiraffes seek 

 out water, chiefly about evening time or during the night, 

 and they can, as already stated, remain several days without 

 a further supply. 



1 was surprised somc^times to hnd cases of giraffes 

 torn by lions ; lions would only attack them, I think, 

 in h('rds or in pairs, 'ihc; Icartul blow th(;y gi\e with 

 their long legs (especially the bulls) might well hold 

 even a lion in check. Near the Gilei xolcano I killed 

 a l)ull girafie that had ck^ej) scratches on it, evidently made 

 by lions, and that had the cud of its tail bitten (juite oft. 

 This indicates thrit lions sometim(;s attack them unsuccess- 

 full\-. Giraffes generally ket:p to districts where all kinds 



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