2o6 GANJAM. 



master, and his combative propensities 

 are strong enough to make it certain 

 that when he is brought near a wild 

 herd he will presently be engaged with 

 one of the bucks ; all the rest is simply 

 mechanical. He naturally resists being 

 dragged away by his entangled adver- 

 sary, and so delivers him into the hands 

 of his captors. 



About a hundred yards behind the 

 house at Rhumba, I had noted not far 

 from the approach a landrail's nest of 

 four eggs, a nest only by courtesy, as 

 the rail lays her eggs on the bare 

 ground in the open, caring only that the 

 colouring of the soil shall match the 

 dusky reddish-brown of the eggs. But 

 other eyes besides mine had noted the 

 landrail's treasure. I was attracted to 



