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enough for the species to be readily recognizable before 

 it is seen, if in forest or jungle. On the open plains, of 

 course, one rarely gets close enough to an animal to smell 

 it before seeing it; but I once smelled a herd of hartebeest, 

 when the wind was blowing strongly from them, although 



The dead tusker 

 From a photograph by J. Alden Loring 



they were out of sight over a gentle rise. Waterbuck have 

 a very strong smell. Buffalo smell very much like do- 

 mestic cattle, but old bulls are rank. More than once, 

 in forest, my nostrils have warned me before my eyes that 

 I was getting near the quarry whose spoor I was on. 



After leaving the elephant camp we journeyed through 

 country for the most part covered with an open forest 

 growth. The trees were chiefly acacias. Among them 

 were interspersed huge candelabra euphorbias, all in 

 bloom, and now and then one of the brilliant red flowering 



