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a native appeared from nowhere, rushed up, broke open 
a passage, and then guided me to an opening in another 
fence beyond; it was apparently a sort of “drove-road/’ 
I recall many such acts, all evidently springing from pure 
inherent good-heartedness. 
Big-Game of Blue Nile and Binder 
On their upper waters (and especially along the 
foothills and the uninhabited frontiers of Abyssinia), 
Blue Nile and Dinder include some of the best hunting- 
grounds of Sudan. Within a few marches of Abu 
Hashim on the Dinder, or beyond Suleil on the Blue 
Nile, there are found most of the big-game proper to 
Sudan. But since—with a single exception (the Tora 
hartebeest, and perhaps the koodoo)—all are equally 
common to White Nile, and have already been described 
upon that river, further detail is unnecessary here. 
Elephants on Blue Nile are notoriously poor in 
ivory, and, locally, both they and buffalo largely inhabit 
impenetrable jungles of cane-grass that grow along both 
these rivers. 
For an excellent and detailed description of big-game 
hunting on the Blue Nile and Dinder, the reader may be 
referred to Mr W. B. Cottons Sport in the Eastern 
Sudan (London: Rowland Ward, 1912). 
Bateleur Eagles—Soaring. 
