An okapi is worth a hundred other animals of any kind that one can name.
And finally even the professor himself at length very reluctantly came to the conclusion that the okapi was irretrievably lost, and that to seek further for it would but be a useless expenditure of time and energy.
But, to their keen disappointment, no okapi made its appearance at the drinking-place that night.
The living okapiis classed with the giraffe group.
The Okapi was unknown until discovered in 1900 by Sir Harry Johnston in Central Africa, where these strange animals have probably lived in dense forests from time immemorial.
So the meek okapi had added a few stripes on his legs, like a zebra, just to make him less like the scornful antelope.
At the same time, an English gentleman was hunting the okapi (that curious antelope) in the same district.
We were not within hundreds of miles of Henry Savage-Landor, or Mr. Harrison, or the okapi hunter, but we heard of their existence.
The Okapi rocked and heaved, was lifted at the bows to fall back with a splash.
Compton; and, after another five minutes' burst, the Okapi swept behind one island and passed in between two others.
The oars moved softly, covered by the noise of the paddling, and the Okapi slipped out of the reflection into the darkness, while the canoes dashed straight on, passing about one hundred yards behind her stem.
I bet she's taken the Okapi as the first of the fleet for the great exodus.
They ran the Okapi in among the islands which still stretched away as far as they could see, and made fast, to eat and to sleep.
They ran the Okapi in, and Muata, with his jackal, leapt ashore to decipher what this writing in the forest meant.
The Okapi was driven into the bank, and the old man stepped ashore.
But the Okapi slipped on, and had a very good lead when Hassan and his slave- hunters set up a terrific outcry on finding that once more they had been tricked.
The Okapi had lost the little way she was making, and began to move with the current away from the canoe.
When he had gone, the three plunged into the wood to follow the river down to the spot where the Okapi had been docked.
All," said the chief; and that day the Okapi was brought up in sections.
The Okapi was backed full speed astern and the astonished fowl pulled on board before they knew what had happened.
They obeyed him, and he, kneeling on the aft-deck between the two levers, grasped one in either hand, and got more speed out of the Okapi than they had by their united efforts.
HRG:] Khnum in Elephantine, the jerboa or okapi (?
