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chuckle? Can he laugh and wink? For if he can enjoy a 

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My ancient ehnm and comrade P. and I were on another 

 oer^^on nL^in-r a toar of inspection alon^ a narrow tract on 

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 Kedgerce and the month of the Huldee river ; and oar daily 

 ras to walk after an earty breakfast through {he 

 to our next cjunp, reaching it shortly after noon. 

 In this noniier^ combining busmen with pleasure, we obtained 

 the best information regarding the game in the country, and 

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 On the day to which I now particolariy aDnde we left camp 

 betimes, earrjing as venal oor cold breakfast, guns and rifles, 

 together with the necessary attendants. It being then the 

 eold season, we could spend the whole day in the open air if 

 we chose, without being incommoded by tibeheat; and thus 

 we had a pleasant time, eating and chinking when hungry or 



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 On the previous day we had found a large herd of buffaloes, 

 out of which we had secured four, but bad lost the master 

 buD, which bad gone off wounded wiih the rest ma southerly 

 direction, the comae taken by ourselves this day. 



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 with a jungle of trees, tanuiiA bushes, and grass, nowhere 

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 few spotted deer, and a panther occasionally, besides an 

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 In the course of the morning we had struck the trail of the 

 herd encountered the day before, and as it led southwards,. 

 as did our own course, we irtnrk to it, though it showed 

 plainly that the anhnah bad gone on at a rapid pace, and 



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Up to near noon, when not far from our next 

 we saw nothing of the herd we followed, and 



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