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neighbouring bushes or suspended from the branches 

 of the trees. Soon, however, as all went to work 

 with a will, damages were repaired. The horses 

 were caught with the alluring assistance of the 

 gram-bag, the broken pole spliced and the tent 

 re-pitched, water ejected, and all made as snug and 

 comfortable as under the circumstances could be 

 managed. 



Streams and nullahs were running in every direc- 

 tion ; but these quickly diminished, and, ere long, 

 ran entirely out, or subsided into mere trickling rills 

 of water. 



The cooling effect of the storm on the atmosphere 

 almost repaid them, the hunters thought, for its 

 inconveniences. How pleasant and fresh and in- 

 vigorating the feeling of the air after the late 

 relaxing heat ! And they thoroughly enjoyed it, 

 as they sat and compared notes ; for not even the 

 unsusceptible Mackenzie had been left entirely un- 

 impressed with the dark beauty and grandeur and 

 power of the elements in their wrath. 



The river had risen considerably, and a good-sized 

 stream was now flowing into the hitherto sluggish 

 pool which had served them as a bathing-place. 



As the sun approached the horizon, the pea-fowl, 

 jungle-fowl, and other feathered denizens of the hills 

 and woods, set up their many and oft-repeated cries 



