. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . fter the manner of deer, and always taking care tolift their right or left foot simultaneously. If any of the Herd leave offfeeding to gaze at this extraordinary phenomenon, it instantly stops andplays its part, by licking its shoulders, and performing other necessarymovements. In this way the hunters attain the very centre of the herd,without exciting suspicion, and have leisure to single out the fattest. Thehindmost man then pushes forward his comrades gun, th
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . fter the manner of deer, and always taking care tolift their right or left foot simultaneously. If any of the Herd leave offfeeding to gaze at this extraordinary phenomenon, it instantly stops andplays its part, by licking its shoulders, and performing other necessarymovements. In this way the hunters attain the very centre of the herd,without exciting suspicion, and have leisure to single out the fattest. Thehindmost man then pushes forward his comrades gun, the head is dropped,and they fire at nearly the same instant. The deer scamper oil, the hunterstrot after them; in a short time the poor animals halt, to ascertain thecause of their terror; their foes stop at the same moment, and having loadedas they ran, greet the gazers with a second fatal discharge. The consterna-tion of the deer increases, they run to and fro, in the utmost confusion, andsometimes a great part of the herd is destroyed in the space of a few hun-dred yards MAMMALIA — CAMELOPARD. 351 1HE GIRAFFE, OR CAMELOPARD. Is one of the tallest, most beautiful, and most harmless animals in enormous disproportion of its lege, (the fore legs being as long again asthe hinder ones,) is a great obstacle to the use of its strength. Its motionis waddling and stiff; it can neither fly from its enemies in its free state,nor serve its master in a domestic one. The species is not very numerous,and has always been confined to the central and southern parts of le Vaillant, the first naturalist who had an opportunity of closelyexamining the giraffe, gives a full and accurate description of it in hisTravels. The giraffe chews the cud, as all horned animals with clovenfeet do. Like them, too, it crops the grass; though seldom, because pas-ture is scarce in the country which it inhabits. Its ordinary food is the leafof a sort of mimosa, called by the natives kaneap, a
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