. African game trails. Hunting. 102 APRICAN GAME TRAILS made therein broad and muddy trails which often offer the only pathway by which a man can enter the sombre depths. In wet ground and dry ahke are also found the trails of savage man. They lead from village to village, and in places they stretch for hundreds of miles, where trading parties have worn them in the search for ivory, or in the old days when raiding or purchas- ing slaves. The trails made by the men are made much as the beasts make theirs. They are generally longer and better de- fined, although I have seen hippo tracks more dee
. African game trails. Hunting. 102 APRICAN GAME TRAILS made therein broad and muddy trails which often offer the only pathway by which a man can enter the sombre depths. In wet ground and dry ahke are also found the trails of savage man. They lead from village to village, and in places they stretch for hundreds of miles, where trading parties have worn them in the search for ivory, or in the old days when raiding or purchas- ing slaves. The trails made by the men are made much as the beasts make theirs. They are generally longer and better de- fined, although I have seen hippo tracks more deeply marked than any made by savage man. But they are made simply by men following in one another's footsteps, and they are never quite straight. They bend now a little to one side, now a little to the other, and sud- den loops mark the spot where some van- ished obstacle once stood; around it the first trail-makers went, and their suc- cessors have ever trodden in their footsteps, even though the need for so doing has long passed away. Our camp at Kilimakiu was by a grove of shady trees, and from it at sunset we looked across the vast plain and saw the far-off mountains grow umber and purple as the light waned. Back of the camp, and of the farm-house. A tribe of the Wakamba with their chief (in khaki with a golf cap) that came to present Mr. Roosevelt with a sheep near Kilimakiu From a photograph by Ktrmit Roosevelt. 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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