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ON SAFARI 
Although when seen cantering at ease the harte- 
beest gives an impression of being stiff and ungainly, 
yet when they really stretch themselves out, no animal 
possesses freer or more magnificent action, very high 
forward. To-day while this troop were crossing my 
front at full speed, one beast saw me, stopped dead and 
turned broadside to the rest—those following, each at 
one impulse, leaped clean over his back ! 
Another day we watched two bulls chasing—their 
speed being terrific and long-maintained. The pursued, 
in a quick double, fell, the pursuer at once leaping clear; 
but in the same instant the fallen beast was up and 
away back with a clear gain of ten yards ! 
While lying watching an assemblage of wildebeests, I 
was much interested to see a secretary-bird catch a small 
snake while in full view. The bird, while among short 
