Show NEW IN THE ANIMAL WORLD Okapi Astonished Explorers and Only a Few Specimens Have Ever Been Obtained Some time before 1800 1890 Stanley Staney the explorer word from the pigmy ne negroes roes of a new beast In the Impenetrable impenetrable depths of the virgin forest which borders the river In the Belgian Congo The natives de described 1 It as ns a species of donkey and called It Attl Atti From their further further further fur- fur ther description It seemed to be a hoofed animal of considerable size which lived upon leaves In 1899 Sir Harry Johnston himself saw the the pigmies pigmies pigmies pig pig- mies who fully confirmed what Stanley Stanley Stan Stan- ley had already told him but added that th the strange beast was striped like Ilka a zebra In 1001 a Swedish officer M. M Karl Erikson on obtained 1 a 21 complete skin an and 1 two skulls which he sent to Sir Harry Johnston who then believed belle the beast to be of the giraffe i. i found In a fossil state In Greece it 4 was however proved conclusively that although of the giraffe family It was not the animal the animal of nn ancient lent Greece but buta a EI new beast altogether It was was was' subsequently subsequently subsequently sub sub- given the name of okapi No more than a dozen specimens of ot this wonderful beast have been secure se se- se- se cure cured 1 |