1. The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were exclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over; but the Leopard, he was the exclusivest sandiest-yellowish-brownest of them all—a grayish-yellowish catty-shaped kind of beast, and he matched the exclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish colour of the High Veldt to one hair.
他们全身都是沙色般的棕黄色，豹子是其中最为沙黄色的一种略带灰色的猫科动物，每一根毛都是清一色的沙黄灰褐色，如同草原的颜色一般。对于长颈鹿、斑马和其它动物来说，这可是糟透了。