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no doubt but the authot% feeing it thus, judged 
of the whole by the part fhewn to him. 
I feveral times examined this beautiful Ikele- 
toDj on my return from Africa, as well as the re- 
mains of the pretended fkin, vv^hich I can venture 
to affirm is compofed of different parts, mod of 
which are fo fpoilt, that it would be impoifible 
to cover the animal again with it. If Vofmaer, 
the fuperintendant of the collection, has writ- 
ten on the giraffe, affuredly it was not in con- 
fequence of the knowledge he obtained from 
this fhapelefs fldn, but from books orconverfa- 
tion v/ith perfons well informed. As a proof 
of my alTertion, I may appeal to the firft en- 
graving which he publiihed of this animal, 
which he afterwards correded from what I faid 
on my return, and from my drawings which he 
faw. 
The giraffe chews the cud, as all horned 
animals with cloven feet ufually do. Like 
them, too, it crops the grafs ; though feldom, 
becaufe paflure is fcarce in the country it in- 
habits. Its ordinary food is the leaf of a fort 
of mimofa, called by the natives kanaap^ and 
by the planters kamel-doorn. The tree being 
peculiar to the canton, and growing only there, 
this 
