THE LONG TRAIL 



cause of the difficulties and discomforts 

 surmounted. 



I think we enjoyed the African trip 

 most in the actuahty, and that is saying a 

 great deal. It was a wonderful "adven- 

 ture" and all the world seemed young. 

 Father has quoted in the foreword to 

 African Game Trails: "I speak of Africa 

 and golden joys." It was a line that I 

 have heard him repeat to himself many 

 times. In Africa everything was new. 

 He reveled in the vast plains blackened 

 with herds of grazing antelope. From his 

 exhaustive reading and retentive memory 

 he knew already the histor}^ and the habits 

 of the different species of game. When 

 we left camp in the earl}^ morning we 

 never could foretell what we would run 

 into by nightfall — we were prepared for 

 anything from an elephant to a dik-dik — 

 the graceful diminutive antelope no larger 

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