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the game for hovtrs as the animals wandered 

 about on their feeding grounds, or crossed from 

 the distant forest belt in long lines to drink in 

 the crocodile-haimted waters of the Urema. 

 Sometimes the waterbuck and wildebeeste would 

 pass the tent, apparently without noticing it ; 

 at others they would stand for some minutes 

 regarding it with pricked ears and distended 

 nostrils, then, curiosity overcoming discretion, 

 they would slowly approach until at a hundred 

 yards or so a vagrant current of air would give 

 them our scent, and they would wheel madly 

 round and gallop away for a quarter of a mile, 

 where they would halt again and gaze as though 

 their lives depended upon it. Zebra especially 

 possess a ciuriosity which is positively feminine, 

 and wiU often stand motionlessly regarding one 

 on the line of march without displaying the 

 smallest disposition to stampede. But to return 

 to the question of migration. The foregoing 

 sentences describe the plentifulness of the game 

 during the rainy or summer season ; in winter, 

 on the other hand, that is to say between June 

 and October, you wiU look in vain for these 

 large numbers, and have, in some cases, to work 

 extremely hard for certain varieties which at 

 first seem entirely to have disappeared. Take, 

 for example, that splendid tragelaph, the eland. 

 In northern Cheringoma there is a fine game 

 country of very wide extent called Inyaminga. 

 Here, in the winter season, eland and sable 

 antelopes are very numerous, and run in large 

 herds. Discussing this fact recently with the 



