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guided by the assembling vultures—found where they had 
killed a tiang-cow, hardly full-grown. The carcase lay 
quite in the open; but 55 yards away to leeward a low 
Two Sudan Secretaries—(U npaid). 
clump of bush had clearly provided the “jumping- 
off” point. That afternoon I shot a tiang-bull, the 
meat of which I presented to my spectral friends ; also 
a red-front gazelle for 
my own mess. 
While returning to¬ 
wards the ship on the 
following evening, an ob¬ 
ject in a narrow forest- 
glade ahead struck me as 
incongruous. The spy¬ 
glass confirmed suspicion, 
though the precise nature 
of the suspect was quite 
indefinite—it might have 
been the bend of a fallen 
trunk, an ant-hill, or such 
like inanimate object. To 
make good, I retired from view, advancing inside the 
covert, presently to find myself standing close by the 
Wart-Hog Boar —Tushes io| inches exposed. 
Shot East of Zeraf River, February 4th, 1913. 
