. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . g—notactually on grass, but, as 1 presently ascertained, onthe low mimosa-growth among the grass. When stand-ing at ease, the neck is held forward in same plane with 224 ON SAFARI the back, say at an angle of 45 degrees to the ostriches fed with the giraffe, and below, nearerthe wooded donga, seven waterbuck. Close by stood ahyena. Besides the above, there were also in sight of whereI sat on the high koppie, three great crowds of kongoni—hundreds in all—and several troops of zebra, mixedwith which we
. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . g—notactually on grass, but, as 1 presently ascertained, onthe low mimosa-growth among the grass. When stand-ing at ease, the neck is held forward in same plane with 224 ON SAFARI the back, say at an angle of 45 degrees to the ostriches fed with the giraffe, and below, nearerthe wooded donga, seven waterbuck. Close by stood ahyena. Besides the above, there were also in sight of whereI sat on the high koppie, three great crowds of kongoni—hundreds in all—and several troops of zebra, mixedwith which were six wildebeest, while gazelles of bothsorts dotted the veld. Overhead soared a pair of thegreat white-breasted harpy eagles, using their extendedfeet as equipoises to balance in the breeze. On thekoppie hard by, hyrax ran about the rocks, and theevening sky was filled with hovering kestrels. ABateleur eagle, disturbed from the crags, vainly tried topoise on a thorn-tree below, and skeins of crownedcranes startled the stillness, passing up the valley withresonant
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