He might imagine that lions and leopards were commoner than they are in our hedgerows and country lanes, or that the head and neck of a giraffe was as native to our landscapes as a village spire.
My subsequent experience in the marshy and lacustrine Bahr Giraffe has confirmed my impressions of the extreme difficulty of deciding upon the non-existence of a channel until after a lengthened investigation.
Our cuttings and canals in the Dalir Giraffemight have closed up; or they might have improved: of this we were ignorant.
The narrow and choked Bahr Giraffe has disappeared; instead of which a river of a hundred yards' width of clear running water meets us at the junction of our cutting.
The Bahr Giraffe was about seventy yards in width, and at this season the banks were high and dry.
We steamed thirteen hours from Tewfikeeyah, with the tender and diahbeeah in tow, and reached the old sudd about twelve miles beyond the Bahr Giraffe junction.
The Bahr Giraffe was to be our new passage instead of the original White Nile.
On my way up from the Bahr Giraffe I had left a Turkish major, Achmet Rafik Effendi, with a corporal and five men, in the Shir tribe, about forty miles from Gondokoro, with a friendly sheik named Niambore.
At the mouth of the Bahr Giraffe I bagged twenty-two ducks at a right and left shot with a No.
We have thus been six hours and twenty-five minutes from the Sobat to the Giraffe junction.
Altogether the entire journey by the Bahr Giraffe is a painful absurdity, and my expedition will be fruitless in all but geographical results unless the authorities of the Soudan will clear the main channel of the White Nile.
She had been admirably constructed, and being devoid of paddles, she would be able to glide through the narrow channels of the Bahr Giraffe like a fish.
The others had heard, by some vessels that had gone up from Khartoum, that I had formed a station near the Sobat, and had captured the vessel and slaves of Kutchuk Ali, thus they had landed their slaves at the Bahr Giraffe station.
They thus combine the character of those of the giraffe and ordinary antelope, together with the expanded and branched form of the antlers of deer.
About a year and a half before this when clearing his shop of old and useless goods, he found a remnant of stuff that had once been in fashion for ladies' cloaks, the pattern of which was a giraffe browsing on a tall palm-tree.
And now he walked along the Rexow road carrying it like a banner, as if he were the youngest ensign in the army of a small German prince, whose coat of arms was a giraffe and a palm-tree.
No one who has merely seen the giraffe in a cold climate can form the least idea of its beauty in its native land.
Reloading immediately, I ran up to the spot, where I found my first giraffe lying dead, with the ball clean through both shoulders.
Critch had hit the other giraffe in the brain and killed him instantly.
If I send you out after giraffe in the morning with these boys, will you take good care of 'em?
Mvita told me this morning," said Burt, "that there was some giraffe about five miles to the northeast of here.
The giraffe stood near by and ate the tender leaves off the tops of the trees and the monkeys ate cocoanuts, and the ducks and geese kept close to the water and snapped up little fishes and snails.
Poor Mrs. Giraffe didn't get hers inside in time and her bonnet got soaking wet, for as soon as the Ark struck the water the spray flew here and there and everywhere and the deck was flooded ankle deep.
Your giraffeis rather handsome," she said, behind her fan.
If I give your giraffefriend those flowers, I suppose you expect me to tell lies as well?
A lion by himself is also unable to kill a giraffe in most cases; for if the giraffe sees the lion coming, it will kick out with its hind legs or its fore legs; and a kick from a giraffe has been known to disable a lion completely.
For then they can all attack the giraffe from different sides; and as the giraffe cannot kick different ways at once, one of them is sure to jump upon the giraffe's back and bite it on the neck.
But as the lion cannot usually come near enough to do that, he generally attacks a giraffe with the help of one or two lionesses.
So if a lion by himself wants to attack a giraffe, he must first stalk the giraffe stealthily, and then jump on it suddenly.
It seems very remarkable that in the neck of the elephant and of the giraffe there should be precisely the same number of vertebræ.
Although the neck of the giraffe is so enormously long, it only consists of seven vertebræ, as is indeed the rule throughout the mammalia.
The height of the giraffe is rather variable, but on an average is from twelve to eighteen feet.
Sometimes, but very rarely, the giraffe will miss its footing and fall to the ground; but it recovers itself immediately, and is on its feet before much advantage can be taken of the mishap.
Great troops of giraffe wandered and fed among the mokaala forests; steinbuck and duiker were everywhere amid grass and bush.
The giraffe was tiring, and now, instead of galloping in its clumsy yet swift fashion, paced with giant, shuffling strides across the veldt, with something of the gait of a camel.
Skilled South African hunters can achieve this feat with the eland and giraffe, but the giraffe is usually far more difficult to ride into camp than the eland.
His giraffe hide sandals, not needed till the thorns were traversed, and his little skin cloak, neatly folded, were fastened to one end of his assegai.
Dwar died in the drought, in the season that three lions pulled down the giraffeby the pool of Maqua.
A real good giraffe cow, fat as butter, and in splendid coat.
It was the first giraffe she had ever set eyes on.
His news was this: They had found a good troop of giraffe soon after they entered the forest; but in a long run up to the game Adriaan de Klerk had sustained a bad fall, pitching upon his head.
As she moved, thegiraffe swung round and shuffled off.
Once more, take the gigantic moa of New Zealand, that enormous bird who was to the ostrich as the giraffe is to the antelope; a monstrous emu, as far surpassing the ostriches of to-day as the ostriches surpass all the other fowls of the air.
Sometimes the giraffe succeeds in shaking him off, but generally they both fall together--the giraffe dead, and the lion with his appetite whetted for an enormous dinner.
The legs and neck of the Giraffe are made long so that he can eat the leaves from the tops of young trees.
Illustration] Some one once called the Giraffe a "two-story animal," and the remark was not altogether inapplicable.
The ordinary giraffe measures about fifteen feet from the top of his head to the ground, but some of them have been known to be over sixteen feet high.
But if the giraffe is a young one, he will follow his captors without difficulty, for these animals are naturally very gentle.
I told Andrew, junior, to take the giraffe home to his parent, and relate what he had seen.
I held the lines ready for a start, and after some hesitation the giraffe did start, but he went tail foremost.
Try and shove the lid back a bit," said Charlotte, "and pull out a dove or a zebra or a giraffe if there's one handy.
Mr. Stanley shot two zebras yesterday, and a she giraffe to-day, the meat of the giraffe was 1000 lbs.
Susi says that this plain literally swarms with herds of game of all kinds: giraffe and zebra were particularly abundant, and lions revelled in such good quarters.
The head of the Giraffe is supported by a very long neck.
The usual pace of the Giraffe is an amble, that is to say, they move both their legs on one side at the same time.
The whole family clustered round the piano, Kitty and Will and Hugh close beside Bell, Hildegarde and Gertrude looking over their shoulders, while Phil and Gerald did what the latter called the giraffe act in the background.
Representations of the giraffe are to be found in the ancient monuments of Egypt, the animal being part of the annual tribute brought by the vassal Ethiopians to the king of Egypt.
The existence of the giraffe was long afterwards denied by naturalists, and his seraffa was for a very lengthened period held to be but a myth.
Your letter has been, and will be, of use to me in other ways: thus I had quite forgotten that you had taken up the case of the giraffe in your first memoir, and I must look to this.
I cannot see the force of Mivart's objection to the theory of production of the long neck of the giraffe (suggested in my first Essay), and which C.
Long tail-hairs of the giraffe surrounded his neck, on which little balls and other ornaments of minute beads, after the Uganda fashion, were worked.
In the Artiodactyla the toes are even on all feet, being normally four (perfect and rudimentary) with the exception of the camel, giraffe and a few antelope, in which two only are present.
In the giraffe and prong-horn antelope they are also wanting.
Several minutes may have been required for inflicting the injuries the giraffe had suffered, and during that time its merciless foe was probably wholly unconscious that it was being borne far from the scene where the attack had been commenced.
Leave me the dog, and I can track up the giraffewithout you.
At first he was afraid the giraffewould be lost in a dense forest, where he would be unable to gallop after it on horseback.
The giraffe appeared to become exhausted with only a slight exertion; and on reaching a piece of marshy ground, where its feet sunk into the mud, it made a violent struggle and then fell over on its side.
He felt sure that within a few hours Congo and Spoor'em would be upon his track, with the others following; and, when all should arrive, the young giraffe would be secured.
For a long time, the giraffe struggled wildly to release itself.
The rheim was now unwound from the saplings to which it had attached itself, and the giraffe released from its irksome attitude.
On reaching the open ground it was seen that the unencumbered giraffe quickly forsook its companion, which was now showing unmistakable signs of being able to go but a very little farther.
By noon the camp was reached, when about the first thing that came under the eyes of Groot Willem was a young giraffe standing tied to a tree!
What little life remained in the giraffe soon departed from it, along with the blood which the beast of prey had let out of its veins.
Moreover, his joy at having captured the giraffe was somewhat damped by the fear that his horse had gone off for good.
Now, however, on hearing that the boer had a brother who had gone northward on a giraffe hunt, Swartboy conceived the idea that the drunken Hottentot had not been there alone.
As a grasper and feeler, the tongue of the giraffe is used, as the trunk of the elephants; and its great height enables it to gather the leaves of the mokhala far beyond the reach of the latter.
Would it not be better to abandon the giraffe and endeavour to get back to his companions?
When morning dawned, the first thought of the hunters was to contrive some plan for getting the young giraffe to the camp.
Yes, because they come tailing after us, according to the programme;" and while Thad crept into the second tent to arouse the boys, Bumpus hung around so as to inform Giraffe that he had fulfilled his duties as sentry to the letter.
Yes, and let Smithy pair off with you, while Bob White and Giraffe are pards on guard.
Giraffe took occasion to remark, after noticing how careful the swamp hunter seemed to be, that according to his notion Tom Smith was half expecting to hear that rifle of the moonshiner bark again.
Giraffe returned to this sly dig; but he grinned as though satisfied to have made the fat scout speak out.
Giraffe tried to hold the fat boy transfixed with his piercing gaze--some of them had at one time even called Giraffe "Old Eagle Eye," earlier readers of these stories may remember.
Thad had just folded the note, and handed the same to Tom Smith, so that he could place it in the tree post office as they came to it; when Giraffe caught the attention of the scout-master.
Giraffe gave him a last piercing look; then as if making up his mind that the case was utterly hopeless, he shook his head and turned away; while Bumpus went back to his camp duties as blithely as though care sat lightly on his head.
In fact, one might have thought that Giraffe was holding his breath as though he feared to take cold by breathing the cool night air too suddenly, after coming out from his snug blanket.
Why, then he has to fight for it, because the hounds will surely attack him, as they are pretty savage," Giraffe hastened to say.
Davy, while Giraffe and Bumpus exchanged grins, the one being founded on triumph, in that Thad had decided in his favor, while the elongated scout showed that he had only been jesting after all, though pretending to be so serious.
Bumpus, giving Davy andGiraffe an eloquent glance as he spoke.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "giraffe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
