We lost several hours having to tack into a foul wind just off the coast.

On account of his great stature, his extreme slimness, his shyness and retiringness — one might say retreatingness — his ruminant habits, his mildness and his gentleness, and the abnormal length of his neck, I used to call him the giraffe.

So Wang and Tiger’s men rushed into such houses as were not too ablaze and they began to drag out booty of silken pieces and yards of cloth and garments and anything they could carry.

That is, by way of this initial imprinting the young animal becomes a socialized member of its species. Animals misimprinted to other species show a variety of abnormal social behaviors as adults.