They were in the protected area, however, and seemed to know that no harm would reach them there.

Later on in the morning we saw other herds, but invariably at long range, sometimes teetering along the sky line or appearing and disappearing behind the flat-topped umbrella acacias.
[Drawing: _They Run Loosely but Earnestly_] The giraffe is most laughable when in action.

He first looks at you, then curls his tail over his back, and then lopes off with head and neck stuck out, and with body and legs slowly folding and unfolding in a most ungainly stride.

It is hard to describe the gait of a giraffe to one who has never seen it, but any one would at once know without being told that a giraffe couldn't help being funny when running.
As a general thing it is difficult to approach a giraffe.

With their keen eyes and great height they almost invariably see you before you see them, and that will be at seven or eight hundred yards' distance.