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quickly left the grass land and sought the society of 

 trees in order to avoid the rush of the stampeding herd. 

 The animals passed within 200 yards, but the grass was 

 so high that it concealed us. (Jn this occasion the 

 clever way in which a herd of liuftalo directed by 

 Mowghli effected the destruction of the tiger, Shere 

 Khan, as related liy Kipling in the absorbing Junyle 



The Iiiipalla. ^Epyrero-f melampim. 



One of the most graceful of the antelope family. This 



gazelle abounds in the Rift Valley. 



Book, came forciljly to my mind. None of us was 

 anxious to Ije trampled to death. A friend related to 

 me a story in which an Ndorobo, whilst hunting a 

 buffalo, was attacked and so crushed by the angry lu'ute 

 that tlie remains could oidy be recognised as those of a 

 man by the fact that one of the hunter's feet stuck out 

 of the maiio'led mass. 



