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quickly left the grass land and sought the society of 

 trees in order to avoid the rush of the stampeding herd. 

 The animals passed within 200 yards, but the grass was 

 so high that it concealed us. On this occasion the 



O 



clever way in which a herd of buffalo directed by 

 Mowghli effected the destruction of the tiger, Shere 

 Khan, as related by Kipling in the absorbing Jungle 



The Impalla. ^Epycero* mtlampn*. 

 One of the most graceful of the antelope family, 

 gazelle abounds in the Rift Valley. 



This 



Book, came forcibly to my mind. None of us was 

 anxious to be trampled to death. A friend related to 

 me a story in which an Ndorobo, whilst hunting a 

 Buffalo, was attacked and so crushed by the angry brute 

 that the remains could only be recognised as those of a 

 man by the fact that one of the hunter's feet stuck out 

 of the mangled mass. 



