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ON SAFARI 
heat of midday, when game would be most likely to lie 
down, we, as a rule (but not invariabty), retired to our 
tents and laid down ourselves. 
This high development of alertness in East-African 
game is clearly due—not to the influence of white man, 
who has only hunted here during the last few years, but 
to the presence of their innumerable natural enemies. 
