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potent enough to stir a hunting impulse in the soul of 
the most jaded traveller; and although I found it hard 
enough to plod along the dusty track in the rear of 
the caravan, and avoid the impulse to cast myself down 
and rest in every patch of sparsely scattered shade, 
still I did every now and then make a sally at some 
wondering antelope that stood in the distance staring, 
Fig. 20.—Zebras. 
snorting, and occasionally stamping petulantly with 
its fore-feet at the strange, inexplicable, snake-like line 
of white-vestured men slowly winding over the plain. 
But my attempts at stalking, and my snap-shots were 
too impatient and hurried to meet with any definite 
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