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just above our heads. It is the white-headed sea-eagle 

 {Hciliiictns :'cci/cr}. \ second ea.^le, perched not tar otf 

 ii[)on a leatless tree, is hold enough to let us conn; quite 

 close up to it hefore it (lies oil. 



" Xyama Bwana!" now whispers my ritle-carrier. And 

 he: is ri'-'ht ; a reedhuck is to he seen some distance awav, 



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tc-edin^' upon an open Brassy plot. As yet the beautiful 

 tawny antelope, as lar^c as a deer, h;is not seen us ; and 

 lor some minutes 1 am able to observe it, cropping the 

 youn^" L^'rass that sj)routs trom the ten-pools, and every 

 now and then bethinking itselt anxiously ol the question 

 ol safety. It is a female, so 1 leave it alone. \\ e 

 proceed, and the antelope, bounding hi^li into the air, 

 disappears in a lew leaps. 



