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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



the country far and wide; but we saw nothing we desired 

 and continued on our course. The day was windy and 

 cool, and the sky often overcast. Slowly we walked across 



Tarlton, and cheetah shot by Kermit Roosevelt 

 From a photografh by Kermit Roosevelt 



the stretches of brown grassland, sometimes treeless, some- 

 times scantily covered with an open growth of thorn-trees, 

 each branch, armed with long spikes, needle-sharp; and 



