CHAPTER XVIII 
The Giraffe- Camel Buffalo 
T he Giraffe. —Passing on in the accepted order we come to the 
Ruminantia family or hoofed quadrupeds which chew the cud. 
The species under this heading are indeed interesting. First 
of all we find that marvelous animal the girafife. Standing twelve feet 
high at the fore shoulders, his head towers majestically eighteen feet in 
the air, and the short sloping body mounted on legs seven feet long 
seems inadequately proportioned to the long tapering neck with its 
slender thirty-four inch head. This head is peculiar in itself. It is 
narrow and sloping, covered with a hairy skin and terminating in a 
tuft of black hair. The upper lip is entire and there is no muzzle. 
The ears are large and pure white in color. The tongue is very long, 
pointed and flexible. It may be well to explain here why the girafife 
possesses the peculiarities which distinguish him from all other 
animals. His height, he is taller than any other living being that man 
(189) 
