OUR FRIENDS THE STORKS WINTERING IN MASAI-XYIKA 



III 



The Minds of Animals 



WHAT Brehm has put on record so admirably in 

 telling of his sojourn in the Sudan, concerning 

 the way in which his feathered and four-footed friends 

 there displayed their trust in him and feeling of comrade- 

 ship with him in times of illness or distress, I also am 

 able to give as my experience during my sojourn in 

 Equatorial Africa. 



Any one who makes his way through that unexplored 

 and unfamiliar region not bent solely on making 

 money, but lingering here and there and giving himself 

 time for the purpose will find so much to win his sym- 

 pathies in the intelligence of the animals, so much to 

 fascinate him in the study of their life, that he will not 

 often catch himself yearning for the civilised existence of 

 home. A thousand questions call for answering, a 

 thousand problems await solution, but the observer who 

 would cope with them must hasten, for many members 

 of the African fauna are doomed to speedy destruction 



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