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eke out the half rations of my own men, it was always 
a windfall to these unthrifty but pleasant savages ; as, for 
instance, one day when I was lucky enough to kill a bull 
and cow giraffe, right and left, and gave them the former 
(which measured 16 feet 1 in height), while the cow pro¬ 
vided me and my men with an ample supply of good meat, 
besides giving me the luxury of fresh milk, they bringing me 
presents of exquisite honey in acknowledgment. One is some¬ 
times almost tempted to believe that these people possess some 
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peculiar faculty enabling them to divine the presence of meat 
in camp. No sooner is game killed than they begin dropping 
in, for all the world like vultures. It is not merely that they 
follow those birds (though they do so), for vultures under any 
circumstances are never absent from around the camp. I have 
noticed the same thing amongst natives in South Africa. 
Although there were elephants about and I went after them 
In my experience this is the height of a full-grown bull, whether in Central or 
Southern Africa ; 14 feet being the average of adult females. I have read of 18 feet for 
a male, but have never seen one of such dimensions. 
