* Masai-Nyika 



So it is not presumption when the sportsman or the 

 explorer, who has done all this, says to himself that he has 

 acquired a certain right to interpret what he has seen and 

 struggled with. No one could possibly do this without 

 taking upon himself endless labour and trouble. 



The velt is a book difficult to decipher; actually we 

 find the various tracks and trails of the animal world 



I LOOK OUT OVER NYIKA 



recorded as though with a pencil in the loose, moving sand 

 of the velt, in clammy clay, and in swamps : a book which 

 is always full of charm, and in the study of which not a 

 single weary hour would be spent. 



And there, where the giants of the animal kingdom 

 have left imprints of their tremendous strength on trees 

 and brushwood, in swamps and marshes, we find, as it 

 were, punctuation-marks to its pages. 



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