. African game trails. Hunting. TO THE UASIN GISHU 408 We pitched camp a hundred yards from the elephants, and Akeley, working Hke a demon, and assisted by Tarhon, had the skins off the two biggest cows and the calf by the time night fell; I walked out and shot an oribi for supper. Soon after dark the hyenas began to gather at the carcasses and to quarrel among themselves as they gorged. Toward. The hyena, which was swollen with elephant meat, had gotten inside the huge body From a photograph by Carl Akeley morning a lion came near and uttered a kind of booming, long-drawn moan, an ominous and
. African game trails. Hunting. TO THE UASIN GISHU 408 We pitched camp a hundred yards from the elephants, and Akeley, working Hke a demon, and assisted by Tarhon, had the skins off the two biggest cows and the calf by the time night fell; I walked out and shot an oribi for supper. Soon after dark the hyenas began to gather at the carcasses and to quarrel among themselves as they gorged. Toward. The hyena, which was swollen with elephant meat, had gotten inside the huge body From a photograph by Carl Akeley morning a lion came near and uttered a kind of booming, long-drawn moan, an ominous and menacing sound. The hyenas answered with an extraordinary chorus of yelling, howling, laughing, and chuckling, as weird a volume of noise as any to which I ever listened. At dawn we stole down to the carcasses in the faint hope of a shot at the lion. However, he was not there; but as we came toward one carcass a hyena raised its head seemingly from beside the elephant's belly, and I brained it with the little Spring- field. On walking up it appeared that I need not have shot at all. The hyena, which was swollen with elephant meat, had gotten inside the huge body, and had then bit-. 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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