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apparently enjoyed kicking the nets into the air as high as possible; 

 whereupon they would all rush through and disappear in the scrub. 

 But once we succeeded in separating from the herd a calf about 

 eight and a half feet tall, and one of the natives grabbed it by the 

 tail, another by the neck, and threw it. We got it into camp, carrying 

 it on a native bed heaped high with grass, and put it in a room of 

 the Kafir native-built house in which we were staying. It became 

 quite tame in a short time, and fed readily on milk and mimosa 

 leaves. Dr. Mann rushed to Dar-es-Salaam, and had a crate built for 



Fig. 25. — Handling stock at Dar-es-Salaam. 



it, which was delivered to Ngere-Ngere. The animal was taken in 

 a motor car from Tula, a distance of about 80 miles, and at last 

 arrived safely in Dar-es-Salaam, where its crate was placed beneath a 

 mimosa tree in the yard of the Government veterinarian. It was 

 then that we telegraphed the Smithsonian that we had captured the 

 girafife. However, after 10 days, the animal was attacked by pneu- 

 monia and died very suddenly, leaving us with our homeward pas- 

 sage engaged on the last steamer to arrive in the States before cold 

 weather and without the main object of the trip attained. We cabled 

 the Sudan Government to see if they could let us have specimens and 

 received word that they could let us have a pair of young girafife. So 

 all members of the expedition gathered with their respective cages 



