sufficient warning for the rest of the herd, who immediately filed up
from the lower ground, and joined their comrades
The attitude of fixed attention and surprise of the three giraffes was
sufficient warning for the rest of the herd, who immediately filed up
from the lower ground, and joined their comrades. All now halted and
gazed steadfastly in our direction, forming a superb tableau, their
beautiful mottled skins glancing like the summer coat of a thoroughbred
horse, the orange-colored statues standing out in high relief from a
background of dark-green mimosas.

• Not a man was in sight! Everybody had bolted, and I stood in advance of
• About half a mile below this spot, as we clambered over the intervening
• In the evening was a masked ball in the Tacon Theatre, a spacious
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