-* Giraffes 



In South Africa giraffes have been for long years a 

 thing of the past. They fell too easy a prey when 

 followed on horseback, and their skin was sought after 

 for the manufacture of the long whips used by the 

 Boers in driving their oxen. It is a regrettable fact 

 that of late years a large number of giraffe-skins cut up- 

 into thongs have been exported to South Africa from 



GIRAFFES TAKING TO FLIGHT AMONG FLUTE-ACACIA TREES 



German East Africa. The newspaper which comes out 

 in Tanga remarked some while ago on the market price 

 of this rare article per frasila (35 Ib.) ! It was possible 

 to bring the skins safely in this way to the coast for 

 exportation in bundles weighing about 60 Ib. Now that 

 the Protection of Game Conference has decided that 

 the giraffe is to be preserved, it is to be hoped that a 

 check will be put upon this kind of trade, in view of 



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