The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20

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ture IN ono ~ her primitive Fnrla. You
cross lonely rivers. fprtine them hreart
drnp NJ tho hc1l ~ your mon. feeling your
way with u polo. half carried N your fNHt
by Tho awirling current, stumbling awk-
wardly over luuae rtrnes. sinking into
spongy mud and wondering doubtfully
II there are any crucpiil"a near. Or " tho
water 10 too deep 90 ford YOU use q native
made bridge, constructed by partially
Telling two trees on opposite banks 80 that
their branches interlace across the water.
Sometimes you pass a stretch 81 Open
parklike country with gently rolling grassy
slopes, dotted with shady groves In whose
boughs hosts Of wild pigeons hutter and
coo, and watered by quiet streams flowing
bet ween banks where the long sweeping
branches Of graceful trees rise out ~ cluster
Ing masses Of light green jungle foliage,
and sometimes, as you come over a rise,
you light suddenly on the cleaning waters
Of some reed frinRed lake, bidder way
amid lonely hills. From the green swamps
you hear the hoarsc Rrunts Of the hippo
potamus. crocodiles are lying like dead logs,
baskirg in the sun by the edge of the shore,
the water IL dotted with wild fowl, on the
there IL a brilliant sheet of
dazzling white and pink from the plumage
OF packed armies Of Hamingoes, and over
the scene there broods a mysterious air OF.
primitive solitude and alOOfneS5.
Then you skirt dense forests where the
ground is covered with a tossing weller Of
luxuriant underground, the tendrils and
creepers twining and INTERVIEWING between
bushes and plants, swarming thickly up
the trunks of the trees, falling again in
cascades of swaying 1t reamers and laclng
one tree to the next till there is an impene-
trable mass of matted boughs and foliage,
while above the spreading branches of
the mighty forest trees weave a canopy
30 thick hat even at MONDAY there ia dim
twilight in the leafy caverns beneath.
The quantity and variety of the game to
be seen are really astonishing. Beasts
large and small, harmless and dangerous,
all living amid their natural surroundings,
as they ave lived for centruies, In UNI
fettered freedom-to any one with a love Of
natural history they are an unfailing source
OF interest and pleasure. You see a broad
plain thickly dotted with antelope and
gazelle; some are hea Wy and ungainly in
form; others there are with light delicate
limbs and daintily poised necks supporting
prettily curved horns; and ell. with the
bright sunlight picking out the tints of their
coats against the dull hues OF the grass,
give life and movement to the loneliness and
monotony of the country.
Sometimes the beasts are found sin gly
or in small groups; more often there IL a
large herd with a willy old buck stalking
a%rrogantly among them, seemingly cunning
enough to know that he possesses the most
valuable horns, and taking the lead in
swift retreat at the first warning of danger.
Magnificent is the sight when a herd OF
graceful animals, like the impela, scents
| danger; O quick startled jerk of the head,
a few terrific bounds, and then the whole
herd rushes helter-skelter over the plain,
O flying jumbled ma "A of 1.-THE lesping
bodies, the embodiment OF easy grace and
activity.
It is an endless source Of interest to watch
for and pick out the different varieties,
to recognize each type by its CHARACTERISTIC
features of horns and skin, to mark small
differences, to watch the beasts in their
natural state, and to observe their move
ments, habits, and instincts, till you learn
to know them all as old friends, from the
bulllike Gland with heavy spiral twisted
horns, and big wildebeest with shaggy
head and twitching tail, to the graceful
gazelle with daintily marked coat Of fawn
and white, aud the pretty little dik-dik,
hardly larger than a young goat:
Then there are the large herds Of zebra,
their beautiful striped skins glisteninG
In the sunlight; the troops of tall ostriches.
stalking proudly about With long Peering
feathers; the snarling, yelping packs of
wolfsh bushdogs; the Sinking. cowardly
NANCY hyenas; the little fully coated jackals
and the souttling warthogs and bushpigs,
armed with curved cleaning tusks.
In the semi-twilight Of the Jungle you
may catch a glimpse of the beautiful skin
of q leopard as he bounds into the depths
of the bush before you can fire; and as you
GROSS a dry wntercourse you may stir up
a troop of liors from their MONDAY slumber
| or In the early morning, while the land
ia still wrapped in darkness, you may hear
| their coughing grunts and deep roars break
| ing the mysterious stiffness Of the plain.
As you march through scrub you may
sight L rhinoceros standing sleepily under a
!, olVmp of mimosa-thorn, with the rhinoceros
birds keeping a watch on his neck; an animal
30 strau gely blind that you can crawl I'M
perceived within n few yards Of him, yet
20 keen scented that if he gets your wind
he may come crushing f~uriously out Of the
bush and scatter your caravan almost before
YOU hGve realizei his presence.
In the big green reed covered swamp
there is the huge African buffalo wallowing
in the mud, coming out morning and even
ing to feed in the open; he is when wounded,
perhaps, the most vicious and dan gerous Of
All African game. And II fortune is kind
YOU may sight a big herd of elephants on the
march, forming a superb spectacle with
their high. massive heads, huge, towering
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