. African game trails. Hunting. 188 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS of beauty and color—nor was the beauty only of color and shape, for at dawn the bird songs made real music. The naturalists trapped many small mammals: big-eared mice looking like our white-footed mice, mice with spiny fur, mice that lived in trees, rats striped like our chip- munks, rats that jumped like jerboas, big cane-rats, dor- mice, and tiny shrews. Meercats, things akin to a small mongoose, lived out in the open plains, burrowing in com-. A wounded wildebeest From a photograph by Keriitit Roosevelt panics like prairie dogs, very s
. African game trails. Hunting. 188 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS of beauty and color—nor was the beauty only of color and shape, for at dawn the bird songs made real music. The naturalists trapped many small mammals: big-eared mice looking like our white-footed mice, mice with spiny fur, mice that lived in trees, rats striped like our chip- munks, rats that jumped like jerboas, big cane-rats, dor- mice, and tiny shrews. Meercats, things akin to a small mongoose, lived out in the open plains, burrowing in com-. A wounded wildebeest From a photograph by Keriitit Roosevelt panics like prairie dogs, very spry and active, and looking like picket pins when they stood up on end to survey us. I killed a nine-foot python which had swallowed a rab- bit. Game was not plentiful, but we killed enough for the table. I shot a wildebeest bull one day, having edged up to it on foot, after missing it standing; I broke it down with a bullet through the hips as it galloped across my front at three hundred yards. Kermit killed our first topi, a bull; a beautiful animal, the size of a hartebeest, its glossy coat with a satin sheen, varying from brown to silver and purple. By the Guaso Nyero we halted for several days; and we arranged to leave Mearns and Loring in a permanent camp, so that they might seriously study and collect the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. New York, C. Scribner's sons
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