The Rediscovered Country Author:Stewart Edward White Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONSTRUCTING ONE OF THE STOREHOUSES OR "CACHES" IN WHICH WE HAD TO LEAVE OUR SURPLUS GOODS ONE OF OUR STOREHOUSES OR "CACHES" COMPLETED all at once so... more »me dilatory god threw over the switch, and it was light! Never shall I become accustomed to the magic of this phenomenon. Whenever anybody, white or black, happens to be near me, I remark upon it to him; and generally gain slight response. Went first to look at the lion kill (nothing), and then up the small bushy ravines on the chance of seeing his lordship. Found where he had killed an eland with twenty-four inch horns. Saw sign of greater kudu. The country rolled away before us in wave after wave of low, sparsely wooded green hills. The shallow valleys between were without trees, and grassy as so many cultivated parks. The eye followed them a mile or so, to come to rest on the low slopes of more hills, covered scatteringly with more little trees. In the bottom lands were compact black herds of wildebeeste, grazing in close formation, like bison in a park, and around and between them small groups of topi and zebra—two or three, eight or a dozen—moving here and there, furnishing the life and grace to the picture of which the wildebeeste were the dignity and the power. And every once in a while, at the edge of a thicket, my eye caught the bright sheen of impalla, or in the middle distance the body stripes of gazelle, or close down in the grass the charming miniature steinbuck or oribi. These were the beasts, of course, we were certain always to see; our daily familiar friends, the crowds on thestreet attending to the affairs of the veldt. And as we wandered farther up the valley, or along the bordering ridges, we could see also in all directions do-n through the trees other scattered animals who had not joined the ...« less