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IN THE GRIP OF THE NYIKA chap. 



and grazed away quite unsuspiciously beneath me, 

 althouo-h I could almost have hit any one of them with 

 a stone. Further afield, but at no very great distance, 

 I counted three black objects moving about, which 

 with the aid of my glasses I made out to be rhino. 



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Herds of zebra, hartebeeste, Grant's and Thomson's 

 gazelle, and a few eland were also scattered about 

 here and there, giving life to a particularly pleasing 

 scene. 



I did not of course attempt to disturb the harte- 

 beeste directly underneath me, but contented myself 

 with watching them, and the other animals, in their 



