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Title: African game trails; Identifier: africangametrail02roos Year: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookyear1910">1910</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookdecade1910">1910s</a>) Authors: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookauthorRoosevelt_Theodore_1858_1919">Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919</a> Subjects: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectHunting">Hunting</a> Publisher: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookpublisherNew_York_London_Syndicate_publishing_company">New York, London, Syndicate publishing company</a> Contributing Library: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookcontributorThe_Library_of_Congress">The Library of Congress</a> Digitizing Sponsor: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksponsorSloan_Foundation">Sloan Foundation</a>


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Text Appearing Before Image: 108 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS bullet makes a slashing wound. The distance was just three hundred and fifty long paces. As soon as I had pulled trigger I wheeled to watch the rhino. It started round at the shot and gazed toward us with its ears cocked forward, but made no movement to advance. While a couple of porters were dressing the hyena, I could not help laughing at finding that we were the centre of a thoroughly African circle of deeply interested spectators.

Text Appearing After Image: A wart-hog sliot by Kermit Roosevelt From a pJiotograph hy Edmund Heller We were in the middle of a vast plain, covered with sun- scorched grass and here and there a stunted thorn; in the background were isolated barren hills, and the mirage wa- vered in the distance. Vultures wheeled overhead. The rhino, less than half a mile away, stared steadily at us. Wildebeest—their heavy forequarters and the carriage of their heads making them look like bison—and hartebeest were somewhat nearer, in a ring all round us, intent upon our proceedings. Four topi became so much interested that they approached within two hundred and fifty yards and stood motionless. A buck tommy came even closer, and a zebra trotted by at about the same distance, uttering its


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