CHAPTER VI 
ALONG ‘THE TRAIL 
HE land teems with the beasts of the chase, 
infinite in number and incredible in variety. 
It holds the fiercest beasts of ravin, and the 
fleetest and most timid of those beings that live in 
undying fear of talon and fang. It holds the largest 
and the smallest of hoofed animals. It holds the 
mightiest creatures that tread the earth or swim in 
its rivers; it also holds distant kinsfolk of these same 
creatures, no bigger than woodchucks, which dwell in 
crannies of the rocks and in tree tops. There are 
antelope smaller than hares and antelope larger than 
oxen. There are creatures which are the embodi- 
ments of grace, and others whose huge ungainliness 
is like that of a shape in a nightmare. The plains 
are alive with droves of strange and beautiful animals 
whose like is not known elsewhere; and with others 
even stranger that show both in form and temper 
something of the fantastic and the grotesque.” 
So Theodore Roosevelt, in that vivid word picture 
of jungle sights and sounds, the foreword of “African 
Game Trails,” suggests the vast variety of animal 
acquaintances the hunter may make in Africa. I 
have sought out or happened upon many others be- 
sides my particular friends, the elephants and gorillas. 
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