THE DESERTS 
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provides a second deceit. Its component stones are 
more ‘civilised’—or less archaic—flat discs, circular or 
sub-rounded, suggestive of wave-action. In the glancing 
sunlight, these flat grey stones resemble a sheet of rippling 
water! Hardly can one recognise what is full in view.” 
Presently one’s eye, ranging afar, rests on objects 
that are definite—a troop of desert - gazelles, lovely 
Desert-Gazelles at Home —March 29th, 1919. 
Day-dawn at the “ Fangs of Jebel Eina. M 
creatures, grazing apparently on comminuted lava! Of 
these, in northern Sudan, the Dorcas and Isabelline 
gazelles are the most familiar forms; Dorcas on starkest 
desert, Isabella by preference on the rockier region, though 
neither entirely eschews the chosen haunt of the other. 
Nor are these desert beauties unworthy of the hunter’s 
craft. Quite the reverse: their combination of open 
haunts with ceaseless vigilance will test both strategy 
and tactics. Then their diminutive size (24 to 26 inches 
