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SAVAGE SUDAN 



guided by the assembling- vultures found where they had 

 killed a tiang-cow, hardly full-grown. The carcase lay 

 quite in the open; but 55 yards away to leeward a low 



Two SUDAN SECRETARIES (Unpaid). 



clump of bush had clearly provided the "jumping- 

 off" point. That afternoon I shot a tiang-bull, the 

 meat of which I presented to my spectral friends ; also 

 a red-front gazelle for 

 my own mess. 



While returning to- 

 wards the ship on the 

 following evening, an ob- 

 ject in a narrow forest- 

 glade ahead struck me as 

 incongruous. The spy- 

 glass confirmed suspicion, 

 though the precise nature 

 of the suspect was quite 

 indefinite it might have 

 been the bend of a fallen 



WART-HOG BOAR Tushes loj inches exposed. 

 trunk, an ant-hill, Or SUCh Shot East of Zeraf River, February 4th, 1913. 



like inanimate object. To 



make good, I retired from view, advancing inside the 



covert, presently to find myself standing close by the 



