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numbers and haunts of all the gn^affes in their vicinity. 

 A very good place from which to start operations 

 would be Masinya's Kraal. 



With the expedition three or four South African 

 water-carts should be taken in. These water-carts 

 consist merely of large barrels fastened upon wheels. 

 By means of these a camp might be formed some 

 thirty miles south of the Botletli, right in the giraffe 

 veldt, where a week's hunting might be indulged in 

 at a time. The water-carts would be taken across 

 the plains by oxen, which would then return to the 

 river, and reliefs of water could with some trouble be 

 managed. 



The hunting would be carried out by the white 

 man or men and two mounted natives, armed with 

 ropes or raw hide " riems." Once one or two troops 

 of giraffes containing young were located, there would 

 be no insuperable difficulty in running down and 

 securing three or four small calves in a few weeks' 

 hunting. It would probably be necessary for two 

 horsemen at a time to devote themselves to the 

 capture, after which, by help of the milch cows, and 

 by handling the baby giraffes in the manner de- 

 scribed by M. Thibaut (referred to in the earlier part 

 of this chapter), the captives might be conducted by 

 easy stages across the desert again to Palachwe, and 

 thence brought to England. 



Of course even with these precautions there is 



