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ON SAFARI 



white edge, and the bare sjDot beneath the ear, that are 

 characteristic of its genus. Irides dark. 



Darkness was gathering ere we started campwards 

 with our burden, and we suffered a bad half-hour or 

 two, path-finding in the dark through heavy scrub, till 

 we met two askaris with lanterns, whom AV had 



HEAD OF EAST-AFraCAX KEEDBUCK. 



sent to pilot us in. He had shot a Grant's gazelle, and 

 both of us had struck fresh rhino spoor. 



Thus ended our Twelfth on the equator. We had 

 brought in five head of as many difterent species, and 

 three of them new to us. Plenty reigned once more — 

 we had half-a-ton of meat, on which our men fed like 

 wolves. Presently weird music — chant and song ac- 



