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In Africa

CHAPTER XIV
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The zebra's chief charm is its colt, for there is nothing alive that is prettier or more graceful than a young zebra a few weeks old.
The only Grant's gazelles that I saw were those along the railway at Kapiti Plains and Athi Plains.

This animal is graceful and beautiful, with a splendid sweep of horns.

With them, and in much greater numbers, is the little "Tommy," or Thompson's gazelle, a graceful, buoyant, happy, bounding little antelope with an ever active tail flirting gaily in the sunshine.

The Tommy is small, about twice as big as a fox terrier, and is of a fawn color.

Along the lower parts of his sides is a broad white belt, along the middle of which runs a bold black stripe.
The effect is strikingly handsome.
The impalla is much bigger than the Tommy, and he usually travels in large herds of fifty or more.


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