t^o TRAVELS IN 
particulars I am going to give will anfwer all 
thefe qucftions at once ; and the account of 
the procefs will be received with more pleafure, 
as it is applicable to any other animal as well 
as the giraffe. 
My firft care, when I had killed this animal, 
was to take all its dimenfions with great accu- 
racy, and then to make a drawing of it, re- 
ducing my defign by an appropriate fcale to 
the proper meafures. While I w^as doing this, 
my people were employed in fupporting the 
different parts as I drew them. 
To fay the truth, this operation appeared to 
them long. Dying vsrith hunger (for they as 
well as myfelf had eaten nothing for fix-and- 
thirty hours), they fighed for the moment when 
It would be finifhed, that they might feaft on 
the animal. Already, that they might diffedl 
it more quickly, feveral of them were whetting 
their knives on the ftones. But, as it was my 
intention to preferve the {kin, I meant to take 
it off myfelf, and not leave it to them to hack 
and cut to pieces. In vain did they requeft 
me to give it up, affuring me, that I fliould 
find plenty of others : but I was not to be 
duped by this language prompted by hunger j 
and I fell to work immediately. 
Firft, 
