HUNTING THE GIRAFFE. 



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GIRAFFE. 



CHAPTER L. 



HUNTING THE GIRAFFE. HABITS OF THE ELIPHANl. 



R. GUMMING thus describes the 

 giraffe. These gigantic and ex- 

 quisitely beautiful animals, which 

 are admirably formed by nature 

 to adorn the fair forests tnat clothe 

 the boundless plains of the inter- 

 ior, are widely distributed through- 

 out the interior of Southern Africa, 

 but are nowhere to be met with 



in great numbers. In countries 

 unmolested bv the intrusive foot of man, the giraffe is found gen- 



