AFRICA 



did not curve cup-wise over to the horizon at all 

 as it did everywhere else, but rather formed the 

 proscenium of a gigantic stage. On this stage they 

 had piled great heaps of saffron yellow clouds, and 

 struck shafts of yellow light, and filled the spaces 

 with the lurid portent of a storm — while the twenty 

 thousand foot mountains below, crouched whipped 

 and insignificant to the earth. 



We sat atop our butte for an hour while H. looked 

 through his 'scope. After the soft silent immensity 

 of the earth, running away to infinity, with its low 

 waves, and its scattered fleet of hills, it was with 

 difiiculty that we brought our gaze back to details 

 and to things near at hand. Directly below us we 

 could make out many different-hued specks. Look- 

 ing closely, we could see that those specks were game 

 animals. They fed here and there in bands of from 

 ten to two hundred, with valleys and hills between. 

 Within the radius of the eye they moved, nowhere 

 crowded in big herds, but everywhere present. A 

 band of zebras grazed the side of one of the earth 

 waves, a group of gazelles walked on the skyline, 

 a herd of kongoni rested in the hollow between. On 

 the next rise was a similar grouping; across the 

 valley a new variation. As far as the eye could 

 strain its powers it could make out more and ever 

 more beasts. I took up my field glasses, and brought 



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