502 HISTORY OF 



sisted time immemorial. The principal, and perhaps the only 

 sensible difference, by which those two races are distinguished, 

 consists in this, that the camel has two bunches upon his back, 

 whereas the dromedary has but one ; the lattei , also, is neither 



ers, which, accordinff to the animal's age, may exceed the lieight of tlie 

 rump by sixteen or twenty inches, and wMch disproportion, when we see 

 it at a distance, must have led to the belief that its legs are longfer before 



than behind His defence, as that of the horse and other hoofed 



ammals, consists in kicks ; and his hinder limbs are so light, and liis blows 

 so rapid, that the eye cannot follow them- They are sufficient for his defence 



against the lion. He never employs his horns in resisting any attack 



The girafles, male and female, resemble each other in their exterior, in their 

 youth. Their obtuse horns are then terminated by a knot of long hair : the 

 female preserves this peculiarity some time, but the male loses it at the age 

 of three years. The hide, which is at first of a light red, becomes of a deeper 

 colour as the animal advances in age, and is at length of a yellow brown in 

 the female, and of a brown approaching to black in the male. By this dif- 

 ference of colour the male may be distinguished from' the female at a distance. 

 The skin varies in both sexes, as to the distribution and form of the spots. 

 Tlie female is not so high as the male, and the prominence of the front is not 

 so marked. She has four teats. According to the account of the natives, 

 she goes with young about twelve months, and has one at a birth." 



The giraffe which died lately in the king's menagerie at Windsor arrived 

 in England in August 1827, and was a present from the Paslia of Egypt to 

 Ills Majesty. About the same period another giraffe arrived at Marseilles, 

 being also a present from the Pasha of Egypt to the king of France. Tliat 

 animal was conveyed to the Jardin des Plantes, and for several months oc. 

 cupied almost the exclusive attention of the lively Parisians. Every fashion 

 was a la giraffe; and even the ladies wore dresses, and the men carried 

 handkercliiefs, bearing the portrait of the animal. Both of these individuals 

 were females ; and they were each taken very young by some Arabs, who 

 fed them with milk. The governor of Sennaar, a large town of Nubia, 

 obtained them from the Arabs, and forwarded them to the Pasha of Egypt. 

 This ruler determined on presenting them to the kings of England and 

 France ; and as there was some difference in size, the consuls of each nation 

 drew lots for them. The shortest and weakest fell to the lot of England 

 The giraffe destined for our sovereign was conveyed to Malta, under the 

 tharge of two Arabs, and was from thence forwarded to London in the 

 Penelope merchant vessel, and arrived on the 11th of August. The animal 

 Was conveyed to Windsor, tivo days after, in a spacious caravan. The fol. 

 lowing were its dimensions, as measiired shortly after its arrival at Wind- 



sor : — 



Ft. In. 



From the top of the head to the bottom of the hoof 10 8 



Length of the head 19 



From the top of the head to the neck root 4 



neck root to the elbow 2 .S 



elbow to the upper jiart of the knee J 8 



— upper part of the knee to the fetlock joint I II 



fetlock joint to the bottom of the hoof 10 



