-^ Masai-Nyikci 



So it is not ])rcsumption when the sportsman or the 

 explorer, who has tlone all this, says to hinis('ir that Ik; has 

 acquired a certain rii^ht to interpret what he has se'-n and 

 strue^gled with. No one c(juld possibly do this without 

 takini^ v\\Y^\\ hiinsell endless labour and trouble. 



The velt is a book ditficult to deci|die-r ; actually we 

 find the various tracks and trails of the animal world 



I LOOK OUT OVER NVIKA 



recorded as though with a pencil in the loose, moving sand 

 of the vc^lt, in clammy clay, and in swamps : a book which 

 is always full c^f charm, and in the study of which not a 

 single weary hour w(juld be sjxmu. 



And there, where the giants of the animal kingdom 

 have left imprints of their tremendous strength on trees 

 and brushwood, in swanijjs and marshes, we Imd, as it 

 were, [junctuation-marks to its pages. 



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