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A JOURNEY UNDER DIFFICULTIES, 
rous situations. Among many experiences recounted by hunters 
the following is indeed most amusing: As the story runs two mem¬ 
bers of the expedition were one day hunting gnus, and one having 
BEAUTIFUL ZEBRAS OF AFRICA. 
been wounded by a musket-ball (in which condition these animals 
are very furious), it gave chase to one of them, and gained fast 
upon him, when all at once he disappeared, by tumiding into an ant- 
eater’s hole, which was concealed by the long grass. There he lay 
