It has a wonderful endurance and can go for a week without drinking, subsisting on the coarse grass of that waste region, and the water stored up in its humps. Its dreamy eyes, sullen nature, angular figure and neutral grey-brown color—all seem to resemble the rocky desert itself.
Camel
GIRAFFE
This creature ([Fig. 9]) is, unquestionably, the tallest of all the beasts of the forests of Africa. It does not stoop to obtain its living from the ground, but browses on the tops of trees.
It is also called the camelopard, suggesting a resemblance in shape to the camel and in color to the leopard.
It is cream-colored with a shower of dark-brown spots on its back and sides.