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(iv) Final 
As prophets we usually fail, and this (fourth) yarn 
falsifies that last remark. A week later, I find in diary :— 
“ As we needed meat, and also a carcase whereat to collect 
specimens of vultures, I stalked some tiang, and was in 
the usual quandary about selecting a choice specimen, 
when a heavily-horned head suddenly surmounted the 
low bush on our extreme left. 
Aiming one foot beneath the 
chin, I heard the bullet tell, 
and such a shot signifies 
‘ neck or nothing.’ After the 
usual preliminary stampede, 
the herd stood awaiting their 
outpost, and I tried, with 
binoculars and pencil, to catch 
some of their characteristic 
attitudes. Presently some 
began ‘playing,’ indulging in 
sham skirmishes, and then 
I realised that a truly grand 
bull stood sleepily on my right front. He carried a 
massive head—a trophy never to be missed. Creeping 
forward to 250 yards unseen, I secured him, my best 
tiang, though only after a long cripple-chase. His jet- 
black face was brindled with white hair, forming almost 
an incipient ‘ blaze,’ and his massive horns measured 
23 inches by 9 in basal circumference.” 
That really did 
“close the account. 
My tiang trophies thus displayed a 
gradually ascending 
scale, thus : — 
* 
Length. 
Basal Circumference. 
A, B, c . 
i8f inches. 
7i t0 7f inches. 
D . 
i 9 s » 
7i „ 
E . 
. 22 + 2 lj „ 
8 + 8 „ 
F . 
. 23+22J „ 
9 + 9 
Female 
17 
5i » 
“Room for Three.” 
Giraffes at Jebel Zeraf, February 1st, 1914. 
