. African game trails. Hunting. 5f6 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS I was anxious to get a ewe of the saddle-back lechwe for the museum, and landed in the late afternoon, on see- ing a herd. The swamp was so deep that it took an hour's very hard and fatiguing wading, forcing ourselves through the rank grass up to our shoulders in water before we got near them. The herd numbered about forty individuals; their broad trail showed where they had come through the swamp, and even through a papyrus bed; but ^v: we found them ^^ grazing on merely oist ground, where there were "' ant-hills in the long . grass
. African game trails. Hunting. 5f6 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS I was anxious to get a ewe of the saddle-back lechwe for the museum, and landed in the late afternoon, on see- ing a herd. The swamp was so deep that it took an hour's very hard and fatiguing wading, forcing ourselves through the rank grass up to our shoulders in water before we got near them. The herd numbered about forty individuals; their broad trail showed where they had come through the swamp, and even through a papyrus bed; but ^v: we found them ^^ grazing on merely oist ground, where there were "' ant-hills in the long . grass. As I crept up they saw me and greeted me with a chorus of croaking grunts; they are a very noisy buck. I shot a ewe, and away rushed the Mr. Roosevelt with the Beireniceps rex, or whale-billed herd thrOUgh thc stork, at Lake No i „ 1 ' long; grass, makmg Frinii a pholograph by Kermil Roosevelt . i • i 11 a noise which could have been heard nearly a mile off, and splashing and bounding through the shallow lagoons; they halted, and again began grunting; and then off they rushed once more. The doe's stomach was filled with tender marsh grass. Meanwhile, Kermit killed, on drier ground, a youngish male of the white-eared kob. Next morning we were up at the Bahr el Zeraf. At ten we sighted from the boat several herds of white-eared kob, and Kermit and I went in different directions after them,. 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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