322 AFRICAN CAMP FIRES. 



sleek. He could not much longer have continued 

 to crop the grass. Such extreme age in wild 

 animals is, in Africa at least, most remarkable, 

 for generally they meet violent deaths while still 

 in their prime. 



About three o'clock of the third afternoon 

 we came in sight of a long line of forest trees 

 running down parallel with the nearest moun- 

 tain ranges. These marked the course of the 

 Narossara, and by four o'clock we were de- 

 scending the last slope. 



