A F R I C A, 269 
came near he told me of his fall. without 
attending to what he laid, without confideria^ 
that he might want help, fpol.e to him of my 
vidlory. He pointed to hi : llioulJer : I pointed 
to my giraffe. I was i o intoxicated with joy, 
that I fliould fcarcely have thought of wounds 
of my own. 
I have already giveti fome account of the 
manners and inftind of the giraffe, and I fhall 
fay fomething more. I have brought a {km 
into Europe ; and if the apartments occupied 
by an individual were not too low for the 
height of fach an animal, I would have 
fluffed this fkin, fo as to exhibit to the cu- 
rious a faithful reprefentation of k in its 
natural ftate. 
It remains for me to recite the pretjautions 
I took in flaying it, CO preferve its coat as en- 
tire and uninjured as poffible. The account 
may be ufeful to other travellers, who, propo- 
fmg like me to traverfe the country of giraffes, 
may defire like me to bring away their fpoils. 
The curious who have feen the one in my pof- 
feflion, which, though it has been hung up 
carclefsly in my cabinet for feven years, aflo- 
nifhed them by being fo frefh and entire, have 
afked me many queiiions on the fubjed. The 
particulars. 
