At six o'clock, far across the country we saw the gleaming lights of our camp-fires and the green tents that were to be our homes for many weeks to come.

Enormous herds of hartebeest and wildebeest were on each side, and countless zebras.

That night two of us heard the first bark of the zebra, and we thought it must be the bark of distant dogs.

It was one of our first surprises to learn that zebras bark instead of neigh..