GIRAFFE COLLECTING.
While the elephant hunters have been at work the giraffe hunters have not been idle. "It takes only 46 horses for a giraffe hunt," said Lohse, with a smile, and a dozen footmen besides. The giraffes go in troops, as many as 100 in number. Wo start out in the hottest part of the day, and find our longnecked friends in thickets. We drive them out into the opening and chase them round and round until the young ones, the giraffes that we want, fall down from sheer exhaustion. We ' drop ' a giraffe in about an hour. When they fall we secure them by halters, and hold them until they recover their strength. Then we try to feed them with goat's milk. If a giraffe will take the milk we drive him back to camp, for we are sure then of bringing it up. We capture them when they are three or four months old, and they thrive on goat's milk and grow rapidly.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 10 August 1888, Page 31
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166GIRAFFE COLLECTING. Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 10 August 1888, Page 31
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