With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



sink afterwards in the thorny . acacia-woods a few days 

 later, there to fall victims to the vultures and hysenas. 



A. H. Neumann, the well-known English elephant- 

 hunter, remarks truly that he has never heard a sound 

 from a giraffe. I also have never heard them utter a 

 cry or even snort. The giraffe appears really to be dumb, 

 an attribute that is not shared by many, if any, other 

 animals so far as I know. Neumann says, as I do, that 

 these wonderful animal-giants exist only in large numbers 

 in the vast East African plains because they cannot 

 be hunted there by mounted hunters on account of the 

 climate. 



Dr. Heinroth, one of our most distinguished zoologists, 

 tells me that he has sometimes heard a low bleating sound 

 made by the giraffe bulls in the Berlin Zoological Gardens. 

 I leave it to be decided whether this sound is made only 

 by the imprisoned giraffes or perhaps by the young ones. 



It is with the greatest caution that the giraffes seek 

 out water, chiefly about evening time or during the night, 

 and they can, as already stated, remain several days without 

 a further supply. 



I was surprised sometimes to find cases of giraffes 

 torn by lions; lions would only attack them, I think, 

 in herds or in pairs. The fearful blow they give with 

 their long legs (especially the bulls) might well hold 

 even a lion in check. Near the Gilei volcano I killed 

 a bull giraffe that had deep scratches on it, evidently made 

 by lions, and that had the end of its tail bitten quite off. 

 This indicates that lions sometimes attack them unsuccess- 

 fully. Giraffes generally keep to districts where all kinds 



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