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A JOURNEY UNDER DIFFICULTIES. 



rolls situations. Among many experiences recounted by hunters 

 the following is indeed most amusing: As the story runs two mem- 

 bers of the expedition were one day hunting gnus, and one having 







'Beautiful zebras oi- afkica. 



been wounded by a musket-ball (in which condition these animals 

 are very furious), it gave chase to one of them, and gained fast 

 upon him, when all at once he disappeared, by tumbling into an anl- 

 eater's hole, which was concealed by the long grass. There he lay 



