OUR FRIENDS THK STORKS WINTERING IN MASAI-NYIKA 



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III 



The Minds of Animals 



II A r Jjrc'hm has ])Ut on record so admirably in 

 t(dlin|4' of his sojourn in the Sudan, concerning' 

 the way in which his ieatherc^d and lour-footed friends 

 there (hs|)la\ed their trust in him and teehuL;' ot comrade- 

 ship with liim in times of ihness or chstress, 1 also am 

 able to n'ive as my experience durini^- my sojourn in 

 Equatorial Africa. 



An\- oik; who makes his wa\- through that unexplored 

 and unfamiliar re<rion — not bent solcK' on makinu^ 

 monc^y, but lin^criiiL;- liere ;md there and gi\ in.^' himscll 

 tim(; for the ])urpose — will hnd so much to win his sym- 

 pathies in th(; intellio(:nce ol the animals, so much to 

 fascinate; him in tlie stud\- of their life, that he will not 

 often catch himselt yearning lor the civilised existence ol 

 home. A thousand (juestions call f)r answering-, a 

 thousand problems await solution, but the obser\er who 

 would cop(; with them must hast(;n, lor many members 

 of the African fauna are doomed to spe(Ml\- destruction 



