We never could, by waving a red handkerchief, according to the prescription, induce them to venture near to us.

It may therefore be that the red colour excites their fury only when wounded or hotly pursued.

Herds of lechee or lechwe now enliven the meadows; and they and their younger brother, the graceful poku, smaller, and of a rounder contour, race together towards the grassy fens.

We venture to call the poku after the late Major Vardon, a noble-hearted African traveller; but fully anticipate that some aspiring Nimrod will prefer that his own name should go down to posterity on the back of this buck.
Midway between Tabacheu and the Great Falls the streams begin to flow westward.

On the other side they begin to flow east.