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SAVAGE SUDAN 
writers, on the contrary, have described Sudan game as 
excessively wild. I can only give my own comparative 
experience. The immense numbers of huge ant-hills 
scattered over the open prairies may sometimes aid the 
stalker to approach single animals or small groups; though 
for big herds, widely extended, such relatively small objects 
as ant-hills obviously serve no such useful purpose. The 
White-eared Cob. 
forest-stalking, moreover, is often greatly facilitated not 
only by the heavy growth of grass and bush between 
the open trees, but also by the wreckage created partly 
by windfalls but largely by elephants. Everywhere lie 
trees uprooted and prostrate, the fallen boughs all inter¬ 
laced with jungle-grass and a variety of prehensile plants 
that afford the best of cover. Given a reasonable degree 
of field-craft, the less vigilant animals—such, for example, 
as waterbuck, oribi, reedbuck, cob, sometimes tiang, and 
even the lofty giraffe—may on occasion be approached 
