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about three miles from Naivasha. We were 

 after foxes and anything else but springhaas, 

 for we had long since collected a sufficient num- 

 ber of them. 



Now and then the light would fall upon some 

 small ground-dwelling bird that allowed us to 

 approach almost within arm's length before it 

 flew, and several times we nearly caught one 

 in our hands. 



Sometimes we would walk suddenly upon a 

 mouse or a rat which stopped and blinked at the 

 light and then scampered into a hole or into 

 a cluster of bushes. 



Again, a tuft of grass, a hummock, a stone, 

 or a bit of wood, discovered at such a distance 

 that for the minute we could not tell whether 

 it was an animal or not, caused us to approach 

 cautiously in anxious expectation of adding 

 another species to our already large collection. 



Far back in the hills, fully a mile away, came 

 the deep guttural moan of a lion. Possibly he 

 had just made a "kill" and was voicing his sat- 

 isfaction at the prospect of a full stomach; we 

 hoped so at least, for then we were in little 

 danger from that particular lion. 



From right to left and back again the light 



