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THE STRICKEN CARAVAN 



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he became very tame and domesticated, allowing 

 himself to be led about by a rope and head collar, 

 and would drink from a bucket and eat from my 

 hand. He used to be left to graze picketed by a 

 long rope to a stake in the ground ; but one after- 

 noon on returning to camp I found, much to my 



' \VE MANAGED TO BRING THEM' IN TRIUMPH TO THE CAMP." 



annoyance, that he had disappeared. On making 

 enquiry, I learned from my servants that a herd ot 

 wild zebra had galloped close by, and that this had 

 so excited him that he managed to tear the picket- 

 ing peg out of the ground and so rejoin his brethren 

 in freedom. 



Some few days after our successful sortie against 



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