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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



made therein broad and muddy trails which often offer 

 the only pathway by which a man can enter the sombre 

 depths. In wet ground and dry alike are also found the 

 trails of savage man. They lead from village to village, 

 and in places they stretch for hundreds of miles, where 

 trading parties have worn them in the search for ivory, or 



in the old days when 



^^ raiding or purchas- 



Ji ing slaves. The trails 



VWt C^tfK flb ma de by the men are 



* Knza&Sal ll made much as the 



l^r _ ._M*^^fl^H 



beasts make theirs. 

 They are generally 



^ L^ longer and better de- 



fined, although I have 

 seen hippo tracks 

 more deeply marked 

 than any made by 

 savage man. But they 

 are made simply by 

 men following in one 

 another's footsteps, 

 and they are never 

 quite straight. They 

 bend now a little to 

 one side, now a little 

 to the other, and sud- 

 den loops mark the 

 spot where some van- 

 ished obstacle once 



stood; around it the first trail-makers went, and their suc- 

 cessors have ever trodden in their footsteps, even though 

 the need for so doing has long passed away. 



Our camp at Kilimakiu was by a grove of shady trees, 

 and from it at sunset we looked across the vast plain and 

 saw the far-off mountains grow umber and purple as the 

 light waned. Back of the camp, and of the farm-house 



A tribe of the Wakamba with their chief (in khaki with 

 a golf cap) that came to present Mr. Roosevelt with 

 a sheep near Kilimakiu 



From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 



