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The Summons

CHAPTER VII
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IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN Just outside Senga to the north, in open country, stands a great walled zareba, and the space enclosed is the nearest approach to the Garden of Eden which this wicked world can produce.

The Zoological Gardens of Cairo and Khartum replenish their cages from Senga.

But there are no cages at Senga, and only the honey-badger lives in a tub with a chain round his neck, like a bull-dog.

The buffalo and the elephant, the wart-hog and the reed-buck, roam and feed and sleep together.

Nor do they trouble, after three days' residence in that pleasant sanctuary, about man--except that specimen of man who brings them food.
All day long you may see, towering above the wall close to the little wooden door, the long necks and slim heads of giraffes looking towards the city and wondering what in the world is the matter with the men to-day, and why they don't come along with the buns and sugar.


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