. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . ial routine. For it seems conceivable that a settler,presuming that he was permanently resident andprepared to devote his whole time to the effort (withpick, spade and shovel), might, within a 5^ear, succeed inbringing to the light of day one of these mysteriousmembers of the unseen world I ^ The African scrub abounds with small cats and ahundred other nocturnals that one rarely or never sees,and whose very existence eyesight alone would nevergive cause to suspect. At one camp we found ourselvesalongside Mr. Ver
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . ial routine. For it seems conceivable that a settler,presuming that he was permanently resident andprepared to devote his whole time to the effort (withpick, spade and shovel), might, within a 5^ear, succeed inbringing to the light of day one of these mysteriousmembers of the unseen world I ^ The African scrub abounds with small cats and ahundred other nocturnals that one rarely or never sees,and whose very existence eyesight alone would nevergive cause to suspect. At one camp we found ourselvesalongside Mr. Vernon Shaw^-Kennedy, who, with of the Field-Columbian Lluseum at Chicago, wascollectingj the smaller mammalia for that 2:reat American 1 The schedules have since been altered, but perhaps my mildbanter may stand. THE UNSEEN WORLD 265 institution. Tlie series of mice-like and rat-like creatures,moles, voles, squirrels and others, arboreal, terrestrialand aquatic, which they had amassed, was a revelationto us of the infinite variety of this unseen world on theminor WHITE-BEAEDED span of horns, 28^ ins. CHAPTER XXII BIG GAME AND ITS BIRD-PROTECTORS We are apt to consider a task in hand as moredifficult than a former object already achieved. Thus inAfrica the stalker, crawling over an adamant veld, allbut devoid of cover or advantage, may recall withenvy—recall as easy by comparison—the approach to biggame on the rug-ored highlands or sheltering rock-ridgesof Europe. He may even sigh for the soft sphagnumthrough which in Scotland the deer-stalker worms hisfinal advance ; yet, at the time, the latter cannot be saidreally to enjoy the sensation of moss-water penetratingto his chest. But in Africa—and especially in the South, underthe Tropic of Capricorn, to which regions these remarksmore particularly refer—there is a specialised difficultyattending the stalker that is unknown in Europe. Thatdifficulty springs from the habits of certain birds, that
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