. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . DANCING BKFOKE TUE IDOL. CHAPTER IV. PORCUriNE HUNTING. TIIEY COME OUT OF THEIR BURROWS. FIERCE ATTACK OF THE DOGS. PORCUPINE TRAPS.—• THE LEGEND OF THE IORCUPINE AND OF THE LEOPARD, Early on the morning of the scene just described toyou in the preceding chapter, Okabi and I resolved togo to a place not far from tlie village, whicli he had dis-covered while rambling in the forest, whci-e porcupineswere abundant. So we left, taking with ns four dogs,and after about an hours walk we came to
. My Apingi kingdom: with life in the great Sahara, and sketches of the chase of the ostrich, hyena, &c . DANCING BKFOKE TUE IDOL. CHAPTER IV. PORCUriNE HUNTING. TIIEY COME OUT OF THEIR BURROWS. FIERCE ATTACK OF THE DOGS. PORCUPINE TRAPS.—• THE LEGEND OF THE IORCUPINE AND OF THE LEOPARD, Early on the morning of the scene just described toyou in the preceding chapter, Okabi and I resolved togo to a place not far from tlie village, whicli he had dis-covered while rambling in the forest, whci-e porcupineswere abundant. So we left, taking with ns four dogs,and after about an hours walk we came to a place inthe forest, near the bottom of a hill, where the groundwas very stony. It was not long before I discoveredmany burrows where the creatures were hidden. Thedogs at once began to bark furiously at tiie entrance ofthe burrows, and to try to get in by scratching away theearth. The porcupine being a nocturnal animal, theyhad all retired into their holes. But we should have hadto wait long if we had waited for the dogs to dig themout. We had provided ourselves with an implement fordigging, an
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