Unsavoury Food. 



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perched upon some tree or on some snag in the river, 

 but near at hand it is dirty and disappointing looking, 

 and to my taste decidedly unappetising. 



Other birds abounded in the river and on its banks. 

 Nile geesef were numerous, but very wary. The white 

 man shoots at them with every sort of firearm at every 



A MIDDAY HALT. 



sort of range, for their flesh is good, and the natives, 

 with shouts and sticks and stones worry them out of 

 their bean crops. Another much handsomer and larger 

 goose, the spur-winged goose, J was rarer, and so cautious 

 that we were never able to shoot a specimen. Cranes, 

 storks, ibises, and herons of various kinds were generally 



f Chenalopex cegyptiacus, Briss. J Plectropterus riippelli, Sclat. 



