Show NEW I IN J THE ANIMAL WORLD Okapi Astonished Explorers and Only a Few Specimens Ha Have He- He o Ever Been Obtained I i Some Sometime time before 1890 1590 Stanley Staney the explorer had word from the pigmy negroes of ot a new beast In the Impenetrable impenetrable depths of the virgin forest which borders the the river In the Belgian Congo The natives de described It as a species of ot donkey anti and called caked It Attl AttI From their further further further fur- fur ther description it seemed to be bea a hoofed hoofe animal of ot considerable size which Uv lived upon leaves In 1809 1899 Sir Harry Johnston himself saw the pigmies pig rules mies who ho fully confirmed what Stanley Stanley Stanley Stan Stan- ley had already told him but added that th the strange beast was teas striped like lIko a zebra I In 1901 a R Swedish officer M. M I. I Karl Erikson obtained a n complete skin ln and two skulls which he sent to Sir Harry Johnston who then believed the beast to be of ot the giraffe tribe previously found in a fossil state in Greece It was however prove proved conclusively that although of the giraffe family it was as not the animal of ot ancient Greece buta but a n new beast altogether It was subsequently subsequently subsequently sub sub- given the name of ot okapi No more than a dozen specimens of ot this wonderful beast have been secured se se- cured j |