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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



The ox wagons trekking through the serub 

 From a plwtograph by R, J. Cuninghame 



laggards, and see that no weak or sick man fell out with- 

 out our knowing or being able to give him help. 



The trail led first through open brush, or low, dry forest, 

 and then out on the vast plains, where the withered grass 

 was dotted here and there with low, scantily leaved thorn- 

 trees, from three to eight feet high. Hour after hour we 

 drew slowly ahead under the shimmering sunlight. The 

 horsemen walked first, with the gun-bearers, saises, and 



usually a few very energetic 

 and powerful porters; then 

 came the safari in single 

 file; and then the lumber- 

 ing white-topped wagons, 

 the patient oxen walking 

 easily, each team led by a 

 half-naked savage with 

 frizzed hair and a spear or 

 throwing-stick in his hand, 

 while at intervals the long 



The porter-harper and his native harp ^hipS of the drivers Cracked 

 Front a photograph by J. Alden Lorinf Hke rifleS. The duSt TOSC III 



