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pull it to the ground, where he seems to have 

 held it till his followers ran up and put an end 

 to it. As the animal probably weighed five or 

 six hundredweight, those may believe the story 

 who like. No wonder Caesar calls the Belgians 

 " very brave " ! 



WILD SHEEP AND WART-HOG 



Allusion has already been made to Africa's 

 one wild sheep. Richer in antelopes than the 

 rest of the world, it has but this single insig- 

 nificant mountain sheep, the aoudad (wrongly 

 called " moufflon ") of the Atlas Mountains. 

 This animal, which is much more like a goat 

 than a sheep, has long reddish hair, black in- 

 curved horns, measuring about 25 inches over 

 the curve, and a regular bib and apron round 

 its neck, and it stands a little over 3 feet at the 

 shoulder. 



It is one of the sportsman's disappointments. 

 Common in almost every Zoo, from Berlin to 

 Bronx, its quest in its native hills is like that of 

 a needle in a haystack. I write feelingly on the 

 subject, for I have not yet forgotten a hot 

 summer thirteen years ago in which I clambered 

 nearly 6000 feet above sea-level in its tracks 

 and found no more than I might have looked 

 for on the beach at Mogador. I am told that 

 the high Algerian Tell is a more likely region 



