Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — Giraffe. [ARTICLE]

Giraffe.

The great majority of the giraffe* killed at the present day in Southern Africa are shot solely for the of their skins, which are now, owing to the practical extermination of rhinoceroses south of Zambesi and the everincreasing scarcity of the hippopotamus, used in the manufacture of the formidable South African whips known as jamboks.