-> Giraffes 



killed about three hundred giraffes near Lake Ngami in 

 South Africa. When one is told that even then the 

 skins were worth ^4 to 6 sterling, in order to be 

 made into whips for oxen, there is no room for surprise 

 at their wholesale slaughter. 



This number was, however, as Mr. Bryden expressly 

 states, only a small one compared to that of those killed 



A WOUNDED BULL GIRAFFE AT CLOSE QUARTERS 



south of the Zambesi. There, as has already been re- 

 marked, as in German East Africa, the animal is already 

 hunted, and will be perhaps yet more hunted, for purposes 

 of trade with South Africa ; it is thus doubly to be desired 

 that a number should be saved for scientific ends in good 

 time. The invention of long-range, smokeless, small- 

 calibre rifles has of course facilitated the destruction of the 

 giraffe. Often those that are not killed upon the spot 

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