■^- The Spell of the Elelescho 



the lake margin, lost, so to speak, in this multitudinous 

 animal life, and once more I have the feeling of finding 

 myself, as it were, in the midst of a vast flock of sheep, 

 and the impression that all the creatures about me are not 

 " wild beasts," but rather tame domestic animals that have 



THE AUTHOR BEING CARRIED ACROSS A SWAMP. 



been driven out here to graze on the pastures under the 

 supervision of a herdsman. 



The mass of animals surges and undulates to and fro. 

 Some old bulls of the heavily horned hartebeest species 

 seem to have undertaken the duty of sentinels. They 

 stand apart fixed and motionless, watching attentively the 

 strange appearance of the approaching man, and then 

 make away in a long striding gallop, with heads bent well 

 down, to increase the distance between themselves and 



