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ON SAFARI 



January 22, but it was some days before we saw any 

 more. By the end of the month, however, fresh troops 



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A TROPICAL POOL OM ATHI KIVER. 

 Note the hanging nests of weavers. 



were coming in daily — all, like the zebras, from the 

 southward. 



Our main camp lay between the escarpment afore- 

 said and the river. Behind it arose that abrupt slope, 



