t or canter being absolutely
madness, unless they wished to lame their steeds.

"I wish we had got father's glasses," said Jack, "we might have seen
something from this high ground."

"I have got them," said Dick, gazing through the binocular at the
prospect of undulating plain, across which his father and the Zulu were
making their way now, quite a mile in advance. "I've got them, but I
can only see some quagga right over yonder."

"I can see something close by," cried Jack, pointing at a tall, dimly
seen object that slowly passed out of a clump of bushes, and then went
slowly forward into another.

"What can you see?" said Dick.

"Giraffe!" cried Jack.

"Nonsense! Where?"

"It just went into that clump of bushes there. Come on."

"No," said Dick, "father's making signals for us to go to him."

"But it's such a pity to miss a chance," cried Jack, unslinging his
rifle.

"Yes," said Dick, "so it is, but I shouldn't like father to think we did
not attend to his signals. Mark the clump. There, we shall know it by
these stones on this high ground; and--yes, Jack, you're right. That
must be a giraffe."

They stood watching the tall neck passing amongst the bushes, but it was
getting very dark now, and they hurried on, so as to overtake the
honey-bearers, reaching camp afterwards quite safely, where, over their
late dinner, the coming of the giraffes was discussed.

"I'd have breakfast at daybreak, boys, if I were you," said Mr Rogers,
"and be off directly after."

"But you'll come too, father?" said Jack.

"No, my boys, I thought you would like to have a hunt by yourselves,"
said Mr Rogers; when, seeing how disappointed the lads looked, he
consented to come.

The General stopped to keep the camp, and Coffee and Chicory seemed
terribly disappointed at not being of the party; but upon receiving
permission to take the dogs for a run, and a hunt all to themselves,
they brightened up, and saw their masters go off without a murmur.

It was a ride of some hours' duration to get to the high ground where
the giraffe had been seen, the fact of there being one, Mr Rogers said,
showing that there was a little herd somewhere close by, and so it
proved, for after cautiously approaching the place, riding with the
greatest care, so as to avoid the great masses of stone hidden amongst
the grass, three tall heads were seen peering about in a patch of trees
quite half a mile away.

A quiet approach was contrived, t