^ Camping out on the Velt 



charms of this African solitude than to set them forth 

 adequately in words. 



Wonderful, indeed, is the beauty of those African 

 moonlight nights. Their radiant splendour is a thing 

 never to be forgotten. How faint and faded in com- 

 parison seem our moonlight nights at home ! 



A TRAPPED LEOPARD. 



Through the camp, past the smouldering and flickering 

 fires, the Askari sentry wanders noiselessly. He is a man 

 well on in years— a tried man who has often been with 

 me before. Years ago he vowed he would never again 

 return to the wilderness with a " Safari," yet every time 

 I revisit Africa the spell of the wild has come over him 

 anew, and he has been unable to resist. 



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