. African game trails. Hunting. T(J lllK LASIX 3H7 yards—they face the hunter, the forward-thrown ears be- ing the most noticeable thing about them. We found that each oribi bagged cost us an unj)leasantly large number of cartridges. One day we found where a large party of hyenas had established their day lairs in the wet seclusion of some reed-. A hyena by flashlight From a pfujloi/raph hy J. Alden lyorittji beds. We beat through these reedbeds, and, in the words once used by an old plains friend in describing the be- havior of a family of black bears under similar circum- stances, th
. African game trails. Hunting. T(J lllK LASIX 3H7 yards—they face the hunter, the forward-thrown ears be- ing the most noticeable thing about them. We found that each oribi bagged cost us an unj)leasantly large number of cartridges. One day we found where a large party of hyenas had established their day lairs in the wet seclusion of some reed-. A hyena by flashlight From a pfujloi/raph hy J. Alden lyorittji beds. We beat through these reedbeds, and, in the words once used by an old plains friend in describing the be- havior of a family of black bears under similar circum- stances, the hyenas *'came bilin' ; As they bolted Kermit shot one and I another; his bit savagely at a stick with which one of the gun-bearers poked it. It is difficult at first glance to tell the sex of a hyena, and our followers stoutly upheld the wide-spread African belief that they are bi-sexual, being male or female as they choose. A wounded or trapped hyena will of course bite if seized, but shows no sign of the ferocious courage which marks the leopard under such circumstances; for the hyena is as cowardly. 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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