With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



finding food and drink everywhere now, was scattered 

 over the whole region. 



Prince Lowenstein brought down some Grant's 

 gazelles (Gazella grant i}, but our chief interest was centred 

 in the immense number of storks (Cicoma alba], which 

 were preparing to set forth on their flight to Europe, 



PRINCE JOHANNES LOWENSTEIN (TO THE RIGHT) AND THE AUTHOR 



and were now lying in wait for the locusts. Rising high 

 in the air in flocks of thousands, these storks went 

 through the most wonderful evolutions. 



The weaver-birds, which here fix their hanging nests 

 upon the trees in great numbers, were also extraordinarily 

 full of life just now, and their nests full of eggs and 

 young. While the old birds fed their young only a few 



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