320 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
On the 18th, about fix in the morning, Erbab Gimbaro, 
’ coming down to our tent, brought thirty loaves of Dora as 
before, and four of wheat, for the journey ; and we had al- 
ready enough of honey, upon which we breakfafted with 
the Erbab, who, to confirm the friend{hip, took two or three 
glaffes of ftrong {pirits, which put him into excellent hu- 
mour. His fon, too, that he might atone for his laft night’s 
mifbehaviour, brought a better camel than any we had feen, 
and exchanged it for one of thofe that came yefterday in 
the evening. I, on the other hand, gave him a cotton cloth, 
and fome trifles, which made him perfectly happy; and we 
parted in the moft cordial friendfhip poflible, after having 
made a promife that, at my return, I fhould ftay a week at 
Sancaho to hunt the elephant and rhinoceros. 
Berore leaving Sancaho,! had an opportunity of verify- 
ing a fact hitherto doubrful in natural hiftory. Mr Haffel- 
quift, the Swedith traveller, when at Cairo, faw the {kins of 
two giraffos ftuffed, which came from Sennaar. He gives 
as minute a defcription as poflible he could from feeing the 
{kins only; but fays nothing about the horns, becaufe I 
fuppofe he did not fee them; on which account the doubt 
remained undecided, whether the giraffo’s horns were folid 
as the deer’s, and caft every year; or whether they were 
hollow, attached to a core, or bone, like thofe of fheep, and 
confequently permanent. The Count de Buffon conjectures 
them to be of this laft kind, and fo I found them. They | 
are twifted in all refpects like the horns of an antelope. 
Ar ten minutes paft eight we fet out from Sancaho; but 
my people took it into their heads, that, notwithftanding the 
fair behaviour of Erbab Gimbaro, he intended to lay fome 
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