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consequently we depended on them more than any other 

 animals to supply us with meat. Up the Shari as we pitched 



HAETEBEEST BY LAKE CHAD 



camp on some sandbank it was seldom that we did not find 

 a kob or waterbuck waiting by to furnish us with our evening 

 meal. 



When we had left the green woods and valleys and 

 emerged on to the sandy mimosa-covered country of the Yo 

 river and Chad region that gives way near the Lake itself 

 to stretches overgrown in places with the maio bush, we met 



