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SAVAGE SUDAN 



On the Upper Blue Nile beyond Roseires, vast areas 

 of i o- foot cane-grass adjoin or abut upon the river, and 

 buffalo (with elephants too) habitually resort to the 

 security of these impenetrable strongholds. Good sports- 

 men whom we met on that river had deliberately left the 

 great beasts unmolested, considering it reckless to follow 

 them into such fastnesses. In that I agree, and have 

 remarked that those who live on the spot, and hence are 

 most in touch with the heaviest game, are ever the least 

 apt to minimise the danger of its pursuit. 



DEMOISELLE CRANE. 

 Sobat River, January 3Oth, 1914. 



