THE GIRAFFE. 
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^ by a keeper, furiously attacked 
severely iniured him that he died in 
^'^"^equence. 
THE GIRAFFE. 
^s^nielopard, now more commonly called 
^ Siraffe, is the tallest of quadrupeds. It is 
animal, and chews the cud like 
fai members of the Cervus, or deer, 
de peculiar food, in the vast and 
of ^*'^cts which it inhabits in the interior 
Cab ^ mimosa species, 
the^ the natives karaaf, the leaves and 
g . , shoots of which it devours with 
ser ' ’ grass pastures it has been ob- 
to crop the herbage with equal readi- 
er ' head, though extremely small in 
}jg?^°^tion to the bulk of its body and the 
® t of its legs, resembles in figure that of 
