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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



out among the limbs and scanty foliage ot the still living 

 mahogo, to the stage in which the mahogo is simply a dead 

 skeleton seen here and there through the trunk or the foliage 



Heller preparing to send off game heads of the first five weeks' shooting 

 From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt 



of the fig. Finally nothing remains but the fig, which grows 

 to be a huge tree. 



Heatley's house was charming, with its vine-shaded 

 veranda, its summer-house and out-buildings, and the 

 great trees clustered round about. He was fond of sport in 

 the right way, that is, he treated it as sport and not busi- 



