THE SOUL-LIFE OF ANIMALS 



goitre storks, to be most intelligent and, after their 

 distrust was conquered by patient kindness, affeetion- 

 ate companions. My marabous moved about the camp 

 free, uncaged and unfettered, built their nests and 



THE COOK AND HIS FRIENDS THE MARABOU STORKS 



made no attempt to fly away. On my return to camp 

 they would receive me clattering, lining up before my 

 tent like a body-guard, and trying to caress me with 

 their mighty and dangerous beaks. And, mind you, 

 these binls were not born in captivity, but had been 

 caught when full-fledged, some of them over thirty 

 years old. I brought one of these marabous witli me 

 to Europe. When Dr. I leek met me at Naples he was 



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