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prefer, and it never attempted to graze: 
seemed a painful and unnatural action 
it endeavoured to reach the ground.” 
These last observations, which may ha''^ 
been correct as to the individual, cannot app^l 
to the species. It is acknowledged that tbi' 
individual was in a weak and crippled stat^’ 
owing to the rapidity of its growth, and 
its limbs being deformed by the treatmcii| 
which it experienced when in the hands 
the Arabs in its overland journey from 
naar to Cairo. It was occasionally confin^ 
on the back of a camel ; and, when they haa' 
died it together for that purpose, they 
not nice in the choice of cords, or the iro ; 
of applying them, and the poor animal haf , 
marks of what it must have suffered from 
cause. Moreover, M, Acerbi, the FreP''! 
Consul at Alexandria, who there saw both 
giraffes intended for England and France, 
well as two others, observes in a publish^ 
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