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But finally I gave in and her chop boxes were packed 

 within an hour. 



In the following days she wandered all over the 

 highest peaks in the Lake Paradise region. The 

 Kudu is found mostly near the tops of mountains. 

 From what the boys said afterward Osa led them on a 

 safari that even I would not have tackled. On the 

 second day she sighted a beautiful specimen. For 

 six days and nights thereafter she tenaciously followed 

 it without ever getting within rifle shot. On the after- 

 noon of the sixth day she managed to get within three 

 himdred yards of the Kudu. She dropped to her 

 knees, took careful aim and brought him down dead 

 at the first shot. At this moment a giant cobra 

 rose up directly in front of her and nearly scared her 

 to death. 



She was half the night getting back to her camp, 

 running into two herds of elephants on the way. 

 I was in my laboratory when she came in the follow- 

 ing day. She entered with a woebegone expression 

 that told me she had failed. I began to sympathize, 

 being only too glad that she had come back safely. 

 I followed her into the next room and there, to my 

 astonishment, saw propped up on logs one of the 

 finest of the rare kudu heads I had ever set eyes on. 



Two days later natives came in to tell us of a 

 wounded buffalo, probably an animal that had been 

 speared and got away. The natives said this same 



