It is like the giraffe in total absence of the accessory hoofs, even to the metapodials which support them.

When Le Vaillant, in the last century, assured the Parisians that he had shot a giraffe at the Cape, he was politely informed that the giraffe was fabulous, extinctin short, that he lied; and now, behold!

The animal now in Paris differs from the Cape of Good Hope species by several essential anatomical characters, and he proposes to distinguish it by the name of the Giraffe of Sennaar, the country from which it comes.

What could he expect from a man who had tried to make him take giraffes for ostriches?