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In Closed Territory
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nishing their best bowstrings. In the next
three miles bowled over several, to their great
delight
Before we parted from this fine lot of young
warriors. got some excellent pictures, the only
ones have ever seen, OF group OF Masal bow
men. The youngster in front of the group IS
Akuna, our guide, a son of koydelot, peck
marked. but 1.-THE and graceful panther,
who on trail or elephant spoor for twenty days
glided ahead of me silent a shadow, wise of
every form of jungle lore, but in all else simple
as little child. pleased with the skin and
sinews of a fresh kill any woman with
Worth dress going into ecstases over an empty
cigarette tin On spoor fierce eyed, intent. tire
less, relentless as a leopard, his light cloak
wrapped tightly IN narrow roll about his
waist. his knobkerrie and short sword stuck in
his grdle, his bow held perpendiculary to pro-
tect the bowstrlng from the wet grass. the
leather CULVER at his back carrying his fire
sticks and heavy, poison tipped arrows.
Akunas sinewy figure was model of an abo-
riginal militant worthy of the best sculptor.
Shortly before our noon camps we passed yet
another munyata. the last below the escarp-
ment. and throughout incoming its party
colored tiocks and herds. grazing hither and
yon about us appearing and disappearing
| among the trees. were ever producing effects
like a gigantic animated kaleidoscope.
During the afternoon bagged fine pair OF
| twenty-seven-inch impala horns and twenty
| two-inch Tommy.
The ascent of the escarpment late in the
afternoon, while more than thousand
three hundred feet was so much like Scram-
bling up boulder studded, thorn clad Gothic
roof that it pumped all the wind out of even
the hardy Outram and took the last ounce OF
go out of the loaded porters.
The summit of Isuria found a lovely roll
ing country, with wide of tender sweet
grass, shoulder high, and thick patches Of heavy
timber, where herds of beautiful topl often
stood within hundred yards. watching in
wide eyed surprise
In Camp in Storm
our tents were up none too soon that even
ing; for directly we were sheltered heavy
thunderstorm broke. And scarcely had the
last hoarse rumbles of the storm died
ears, about midnight than they were followed
by the deep bass grunts of lion prowling near
in fact, very that all the porterS who
were sleeping by fires well sheltered in the
dense bush came hurrying into the center OF
the camp and there spent the night within the
| narrowest circle of fires we had to build at any
time that safari All about old Leo cir
cled so circled all night long keen of hunger or
wonder. one or the other Often one could hear
| twig break beneath his stealthv tread, but not
once did he pass within the ring Of our freight.
Toward dawn he gave us up as bad, probably
too fiery, job and stalked grumbling away.
And by the way, 1t was in a ravine OF this
escarpment that Outram had a particularly
| curious experience. Out after buck meat for
the porters beneath slightly leaning thorn
tree he saw writhing about the tall grass tops
what he took to be the head and neck of
python. and fired at it At the shot, to his
great surprise big leopard bounded snarling
away into the bush.
Advancing beneath the tree to see what the
leopard had been crouched over he was start
led to find nothing but narrow area of tram
pied grass and much absolutely fresh blood, SO
sprinkled about that evidently it was not come
of the wound he had q wen the leopard. Sud
denly. while standing puzzling over what the
leopard's kill could have been that might be
made away with completely hide meat, and
bone, he became conscious of a steady drip.
drip, drip on his coat sleeve, and. upon lifting
his arm, discovered stream of blood running
down it.
CHANGING aloft his puzzle was solved There,
in high fork of the tree at least eighteen feet
from the ground, were cleverly wedged heads
to tails, their legs even artfully intcrtwined to
steady them. the carcasses of two freshly killed
Young topi antelope. weighing forty to fifty
pounds each Obviously the leopard. after a
strenuous morning winning and safely slowing
away his days repast, had been resting himself
beneath the tree and tapping the dripping
blood as an appetizer.
Long Chase for an Eand
A BOUT seven o'clock that morning. while
riding a short distance ahead of the safari
sighted four Gland. two of them splendid
bulls, magnificent great fellows which looked big
as beeveS With no means of stopping the