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South Africa, who have described the state of things brought about there 

 by the destruction of big game wrought by Boer and native hide-hunters. 

 I am glad to say that in the part of Africa of which I write this is by no 

 means the case, and is not likely to be unless the country should be allowed 

 to be flooded with cheap guns and powder which the natives would, like 

 those of other parts, in time learn to use. Moreover, in South Africa the 

 giraffe have been killed off by mounted hunters. Here, in East Africa, 

 there are neither the horses nor much chance of using them effectively, 

 nor is there the means of transporting the hides nor any demand for them, 

 as in- the south, where they are used chiefly for making whip lashes for the 

 bullock-waggon whips. A R Neumann . 



Southern Race (Giraffa capensis) 



Hottentot Name, Na'ip ; Bechuana Name, Tutla (pronounced Tootla) ; 

 Matabele and Zulu Name, Ntutla 



The Masarwa Bushmen of the Kalahari call this animal Nghabi, a 

 name singularly resembling the Ethiopian name for this animal in the time 

 of Pliny, which, according to that great writer, was Nabis or Nairn. The 

 Boers of South Africa speak of the giraffe invariably as Kameel (camel), and 

 all British hunters south of the Zambesi universally refer to the tall quad- 

 ruped by the same name, " camel." ' 



It has only recently been completely established by naturalists that the 

 giraffes found in various parts of Africa are to be separated into absolutely 

 distinct species. Formerly it was supposed that no practical difference existed 

 between the giraffes of North and South Africa, but more recent research and 

 discovery have established the fact that very considerable variations are to be 

 found. It has long been noted that in the northern or Nubian form of giraffe 

 a prominent third horn, rising from the centre of the forehead, between 



