XIV 
ON SAFARI 
as a bath for a baby. In many places, in (mntrast to 
such hu 2 ;’e depressions, were the clear-cut impressions 
made by the hoofs of the water-buck. A¥hilst we were 
discussing them I happened to look acioss the reed-beds, 
and within thirty yards of us there stood two of these 
The Tlamingo. 
beautiful beasts—male and female—watching us 
between the trees, and as motionless as if they formed 
part of the thicket. These antelopes stood quite still as 
long as we were simply content to wateh them, but the 
instant the gunbearer moved to hand me a rifle they 
were off like the wind. Proceeding along the shore we 
