HUNTING ON LAKE SOLAI 
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and reported that the poor wretch had bolted—gone 
coastwards by the midnight train, leaving in the lurch 
his partner, his engagements, everything ! With a huge 
frame and a tenor voice, but the heart of a mouse, he had 
evidently concluded within himself that he wasn't the 
man for Africa, and there he was right. 
whydah-finches (Fenthetria ardens). 
