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CHAPTER II 



Birth of the Calf 



'T^HERE was no difficulty in 



'^ -*- following the trail. It stretched 



'O away through the forest in a curving 



'<^ line, the brown earth showing darkly 



fX:> against the green of the herbage, 



^O 



avoiding the stems of the tall trees 

 which reached one hundred feet and 

 r'~^\ _^s more towards the sky, 



*"^^^=--^ ( (^A forming a lane through 



the rank vegetation, 

 r"^'^ and marked here and 



\^ ^ there by overturned 



, , bamboo clumps or 



^■Z" ^i) splintered saplings. 



The man kept to one 



^ side of the deeply 



{ (''"\ indented footmarks, for 



