. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . guinea-fowl, which thenceforth held an important placein the menu. They prefer to use their legs rather thantheir wings, and, as they can run faster than a man canwalk, they are not particularly easy to shoot. As theyare constantly walking down in a long string to feed on. THE WHITE NILE 57 the marsh, the best way to circumvent them is to postguns in the jungle behind them, and send beaters round,when they give fair overhead shots. Their numbers areextraordinary, and many parts of the jungle have theappearanc
. Two African trips, with notes and suggestions on big game preservation in Africa; . guinea-fowl, which thenceforth held an important placein the menu. They prefer to use their legs rather thantheir wings, and, as they can run faster than a man canwalk, they are not particularly easy to shoot. As theyare constantly walking down in a long string to feed on. THE WHITE NILE 57 the marsh, the best way to circumvent them is to postguns in the jungle behind them, and send beaters round,when they give fair overhead shots. Their numbers areextraordinary, and many parts of the jungle have theappearance of a crowded poultry-yard. They must comefrom a long way inland to water and feed on the is scarcely too much to say that they are never outof sight, but always on the run. On one occasion I sawDinkas trying to spear some which they had cut off in apatch of grass. It seemed a futile proceeding. A moreeffective method employed by them is a long cord laidacross their line of march, with a noose at every run usedby the birds, into which they are driven. It is certainthat they catch many, as I constantly saw them in theirhands. Crocodiles were seen on the second day, looking likegreenish slimy logs; and small families of hippopotamusbegan to appear after we passed the ford at Abu seem to be in great dread of the steamers, and onlysh
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