It was to me a perpetual source of won¬ 
derment to notice the difference in the be¬ 
havior of different individuals of the same 
species, and in the behavior of the same in¬ 
dividual at different times; as, for example, 
in the matter of wariness, of the times for 
going to water, of the times for resting, and, 
as regards dangerous game, in the matter 
of ferocity. Their very looks changed. At 
one moment the sun would turn the zebras 
of a mixed herd white, and the hartebeeste 
straw colored, so that the former could be 
seen much farther off than the latter; and 
again the conditions would be reversed 
when under the light the zebras would show 
up gray, and the hartebeeste as red as 
foxes. 
I had now killed almost all the specimens 
of the common game that the Museum 
needed. However, we kept the skin or 
skeleton of whatever we shot for 
Now and then, after a good stalk, I would 
get a boar with unusually fine tusks, a big 
gazelle with unusually long and graceful 
horns, or a fine old wildebeeste bull, its 
horns thick and battered, its knees bare and 
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