504 



EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



river. In parts of the Kalahari desert it is said to abound, and in 

 all the dry sandy district between Bamangwato and Lake Ngami, 

 and thence to the Mababe, Chobe, and Zambesi rivers, it is also 



FIG. 49. Southern Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis capensis). After Brehm, 



Lydekker, etc. 



very numerous. Along portions of the Botletlie river, and in the 

 waterless but forest-clad sand-belts on the southern bank of the 

 Chobe, it is particularly plentiful." (Selous, 1890, p. 230.) 

 Bryden (1899, pp. 500, 502-505) writes: 



The flesh of a fat cow giraffe ... is excellent, tender, well tasted, and 

 resembles young beef, with a game-like flavour of its own. The marrow 

 bones . . . are delicious, and are one of the prime bonnes bouches of African 

 hunters. . . . 



