I rode at an angle to the giraffe's line of flight, thus gaining considerably; and when it finally turned and went
straight away I followed it at a fast run, and before it was fully awake to the danger I was but a hundred yards behind.
We were now getting into bad country, and jumping off I opened fire and crippled the great beast.  Mounting, I 
overtook it again in a quarter of a mile and killed it.  In half an hour the skinners and porters came up- one of the
troubles of hunting as a naturalist is that it necessitates the presence of a long tail of men to take off and carry in
the big skins, in order that they may ultimately appear in museums.