THE GIRAFFE'S OBITUARY 
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in Egypt, where the c courbatch ’ (hippopotamus whip) 
has been abolished, the hippopotamus will remain 
undisturbed on the great White Nile, monarch of the 
river upon which fifteen British steamers were flying 
when the Soudan was abandoned by the despotic 
order of Great Britain, and handed back to savagedom 
and wild beasts.” 
