WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



IBIS NESTS 



live near the river and feed on its finny tribes. From 

 sand-bank to sand-bank they fly to catch the fish, while 

 they in turn are the prey of crocodiles. 



There a Nile goose has alighted on a sand -bank. 

 Suddenly the head of a crocodile appears above the 

 waters; but the goose has espied him; immovable they 

 face each other. A sound of warning by the goose to 

 her sister-geese, and the crocodile disappears. 



The fishing-gull, the ibis, the heron, the goat-sucker, 

 and many others, all like the taste of fish— and so do we. 



Not far from our camp I found a large pond, one of 

 the many with which the neighborhood of the river was 



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