212 SERVICE AND SPORT IN THE SUDAN 



cubic feet that flow down the grand rivers of that 

 province only to disappear, one can well believe that 

 statement, 



I followed the (already mapped) road towards Chak- 

 chak. There was practically no game along the road. 

 Its absence accounted for the attenuated bodies of the 

 tsetse flies, and the violence the few we met displayed 

 in attacking us. 



The country was peculiar, the trees further apart 

 and smaller than elsewhere. Occasionally there were 

 inexplicable breaks and hummocks in the ground, and 

 here and there huge slabs of rock, and groups of 

 boulders, ten feet high. Further on we came again on 

 large trees. Near a rest-house were the standards — 

 like a towel-horse — on which a hunting party had 

 dried the meat of some animal they had killed. 



As we walked along we frequently came upon 

 " notices " on the trees. One would be blazed a 

 foot square, another would carry a number of small 

 cuts. Like North American Indians, the children of 

 Nature in these parts are not slow in devising means of 

 communicating with friends who may follow them. 



I need not go into endless repetitions of the scenery, 

 which the newly sprouting grass, answering to the fairy 

 wand of the rain-god, rendered particularly alluring. 

 Vista after vista passes before my eyes as I follow the 

 blurred lines in my field-book ; but, being no master 

 of words, I feel any attempt on my part to do them 

 justice is worse than useless. 



Some miles from Sh. Ramadan's village I shot a 

 hartebeest, and a second shot brought a female down 



