Of these, by the way, I saw many that are known both to Europe and Africa, especially ducks and cranes; also storks that, for aught I can say, may have come from far-off, homely Holland.
At last the character of the country began to change.

Grass appeared on its lower-lying stretches, then bushes, then occasional trees and among the trees a few buck.

Halting the caravan I crept out and shot two of these buck with a right and left, a feat that caused our grave escort to stare in a fashion which showed me that they had never seen anything of the sort done before.
That night, while we were eating the venison with relish, since it was the first fresh meat that we had tasted for many a day, I observed that the disposition of our camp was different from its common form.

Thus it was smaller and placed on an eminence.

Also the camels were not allowed to graze where they would as usual, but were kept within a limited area while their riders were arranged in groups outside of them.