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As
we
emerged
into
this
river-bed
path
suddenly
we
started
a
troop
of
tall
giraffes
,
who
galloped
,
or
rather
sailed
off
,
in
their
strange
gait
,
their
tails
screwed
up
over
their
backs
,
and
their
hoofs
rattling
like
castanets
.
They
were
about
three
hundred
yards
from
us
,
and
therefore
practically
out
of
shot
,
but
Good
,
who
was
walking
ahead
,
and
who
had
an
express
loaded
with
solid
ball
in
his
hand
,
could
not
resist
temptation
.
Lifting
his
gun
,
he
let
drive
at
the
last
,
a
young
cow
.
By
some
extraordinary
chance
the
ball
struck
it
full
on
the
back
of
the
neck
,
shattering
the
spinal
column
,
and
that
giraffe
went
rolling
head
over
heels
just
like
a
rabbit
.
I
never
saw
a
more
curious
thing
.
"
Curse
it
!
"
said
Good
--
for
I
am
sorry
to
say
he
had
a
habit
of
using
strong
language
when
excited
--
contracted
,
no
doubt
,
in
the
course
of
his
nautical
career
;
"
curse
it
!
I
've
killed
him
.
"
"
Ou
,
Bougwan
,
"
ejaculated
the
Kafirs
;
"
ou
!
ou
!
"
They
called
Good
"
Bougwan
,
"
or
Glass
Eye
,
because
of
his
eye-glass
.
"
Oh
,
'
Bougwan
!
'
"
re-echoed
Sir
Henry
and
I
,
and
from
that
day
Good
's
reputation
as
a
marvellous
shot
was
established
,
at
any
rate
among
the
Kafirs
.
Really
he
was
a
bad
one
,
but
whenever
he
missed
we
overlooked
it
for
the
sake
of
that
giraffe
.
Having
set
some
of
the
"
boys
"
to
cut
off
the
best
of
the
giraffe
's
meat
,
we
went
to
work
to
build
a
"
scherm
"
near
one
of
the
pools
and
about
a
hundred
yards
to
its
right
.
This
is
done
by
cutting
a
quantity
of
thorn
bushes
and
piling
them
in
the
shape
of
a
circular
hedge
.
Then
the
space
enclosed
is
smoothed
,
and
dry
tambouki
grass
,
if
obtainable
,
is
made
into
a
bed
in
the
centre
,
and
a
fire
or
fires
lighted
.
By
the
time
the
"
scherm
"
was
finished
the
moon
peeped
up
,
and
our
dinners
of
giraffe
steaks
and
roasted
marrow-bones
were
ready
.
How
we
enjoyed
those
marrow-bones
,
though
it
was
rather
a
job
to
crack
them
!
I
know
of
no
greater
luxury
than
giraffe
marrow
,
unless
it
is
elephant
's
heart
,
and
we
had
that
on
the
morrow
.
We
ate
our
simple
meal
by
the
light
of
the
moon
,
pausing
at
times
to
thank
Good
for
his
wonderful
shot
;
then
we
began
to
smoke
and
yarn
,
and
a
curious
picture
we
must
have
made
squatting
there
round
the
fire
.
I
,
with
my
short
grizzled
hair
sticking
up
straight
,
and
Sir
Henry
with
his
yellow
locks
,
which
were
getting
rather
long
,
were
rather
a
contrast
,
especially
as
I
am
thin
,
and
short
,
and
dark
,
weighing
only
nine
stone
and
a
half
,
and
Sir
Henry
is
tall
,
and
broad
,
and
fair
,
and
weighs
fifteen
.
But
perhaps
the
most
curious-looking
of
the
three
,
taking
all
the
circumstances
of
the
case
into
consideration
,
was
Captain
John
Good
,
R.
N
.
There
he
sat
upon
a
leather
bag
,
looking
just
as
though
he
had
come
in
from
a
comfortable
day
's
shooting
in
a
civilised
country
,
absolutely
clean
,
tidy
,
and
well
dressed
.
He
wore
a
shooting
suit
of
brown
tweed
,
with
a
hat
to
match
,
and
neat
gaiters
.
As
usual
,
he
was
beautifully
shaved
,
his
eye-glass
and
his
false
teeth
appeared
to
be
in
perfect
order
,
and
altogether
he
looked
the
neatest
man
I
ever
had
to
do
with
in
the
wilderness
.
He
even
sported
a
collar
,
of
which
he
had
a
supply
,
made
of
white
gutta-percha
.
"
You
see
,
they
weigh
so
little
,
"
he
said
to
me
innocently
,
when
I
expressed
my
astonishment
at
the
fact
;
"
and
I
always
like
to
turn
out
like
a
gentleman
.
"
Ah
!
if
he
could
have
foreseen
the
future
and
the
raiment
prepared
for
him
.
