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writers, on the contrary, have described Sudan game as 

 'excessively wild. I can only give my own comparative 

 experience. The immense numbers of huge ant-hills 

 scattered over the open prairies may sometimes aid the 

 stalker to approach single animals or small groups ; though 

 for big herds, widely extended, such relatively small objects 

 as ant-hills obviously serve no such useful purpose. The 



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forest-stalking, moreover, is often greatly facilitated not 

 only by the heavy growth of grass and bush between 

 the open trees, but also by the wreckage created partly 

 by windfalls but largely by elephants. Everywhere lie 

 trees uprooted and prostrate, the fallen boughs all inter- 

 laced with jungle-grass and a variety of prehensile plants 

 that afford the best of cover. Given a reasonable degree 

 of field-craft, the less vigilant animals such, for example, 

 as waterbuck, oribi, reedbuck, cob, sometimes tiang, and 

 even the lofty giraffe may on occasion be approached 



