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provides a second deceit. Its component stones are 

 more 'civilised' or less archaic flat discs, circular or 

 sub-rounded, suggestive of wave-action. In the glancing 

 sunlight, these flat grey stones resemble a sheet of rippling 

 water! Hardly can one recognise what is full in view." 



Presently one's eye, ranging afar, rests on objects 

 that are definite a troop of desert - gazelles, lovely 





DESERT-GAZELLES AT HOME March 29th, 1919. 

 Day-dawn at the " Fangs of Jebel Eina." 



creatures, grazing apparently on comminuted lava! Of 

 these, in northern Sudan, the Dorcas and Isabelline 

 gazelles are the most familiar forms ; Dorcas on starkest 

 desert, Isabella by preference on the rockier region, though 

 neither entirely eschews the chosen haunt of the other. 



Nor are these desert beauties unworthy of the hunter's 

 craft. Quite the reverse : their combination of open 

 haunts with ceaseless vigilance will test both strategy 

 and tactics. Then their diminutive size (24 to 26 inches 



