CHAPTER V.
A primitive craft--Stalking the giraffes--My first giraffes--Rare sport with the finny tribe--Thieving elephants.
For many days, while at Sofi, we saw large herds of giraffes and antelopes on the opposite side of the river, about two miles distant.

On September 2d a herd of twenty-eight giraffes tempted me at all hazards to cross the river.

So we prepared an impromptu raft.

My angarep (bedstead) was quickly inverted.

Six water-skins were inflated, and lashed, three on either side.