And when they do shift ground, move they must at times, they do £0 with a silence, stealth and caution that man, try as he will, may never imitate, " A great snake'lios ent win ed in the fork of tree bordering an animal tral, its bright eyes eves lest. bat at motionless. as though carved out of stone rustling in the shrubbery; a shadow! on the trail; the swift swoop of a rear sinuous body; a. manetacy! Struggle, a sound as of cracking! bones, and the big. serpent glides sitontiy and sluggishly' into" the forests' depths to lie for days in, tranquil immobility: while ite' mea! digests, or beside a spur of rock; chin resting on forepaws and hind legs drawn Up \with muscles tense and. waiting. ("There is the tiniest quivering of the! {tip of the tail, but, aside from this not $9 much as the ticker of -an eyelash to indicate that all fs not Serene and safe. A timorous munt-steps into the open in search of tender grass shoots and clover blo A great body goes hurtling through the airy there $s a crash of, grow until it fairly stings, and that flying in mortal terror and careless shat.naq fatten into the. pits exe Prosquito that has been' buzzing alen Tro thee worst avec posily dag for tha seetace ate, about finds 2 foothold on my ear, the python.
In any ease they paid! and we later secured two hog-nosed no, attention to us as we craned badgers, two other monkeys, a: fine At last however, asthe shadows our necks among the bamboos trying! specimen of Latouche's eat and num. lengthen we have our reward, for to get a sight of them.
Finally 1) bers of wild pig and muntjack as Just across the opening a" slight spied a bit of brown for through al also many smaller animals and movement catches my eye and I rea-clump of leaves and, taking but the! some rare varieties of birds, the Tize that what I had taken for a dead fraction of a second to steady the! most beautiful of which was the tree branch is in reality the short aim, fired into it. He folias though white-backed.slver pheasant. antlers of a roe deer. I pinch the hho hed been paralyzed and the old Jold man's leg and can hear him rust man hastened down the hill to the Pater hing into position where he is out of spot.
For when a monkey is shot During the sight behind the rock. The deer ibis walla ose no tne la Yaying|anfmate® vent ae tht, ECO raises its head and gazes intently hhands.on him, since, should he notlby our direction, and we freeze into be quite dead, the others are apt tolas their own, and this occasion-immobility. But the damage has lift him in their arms and carry himlaty' oen done. The animal must have away to some place of greater safe-caught some smal ty. We found ours, though, as I rather more then merely annoying, man shifted his For the trappers set their steel had feared, the soft nose Savage snort of fear it makes one bound into bullet was too powerful for this sort traps in-the trails used by ourselves the brush.
Our two shots ring out of game and the half of his head had and cur hunters, and.so expert were they in hiding all traces of their together, but it was tricky shooting been blown off. at a semi-visible target in motion, and we both miss, There is no use waiting longer for the sound of our Bert ith handiwork thet not infrequently one er Lack with Trape nipped. Fortunately the or the other of our men would human feat get I thought that surely when my shot is too large to ft entirely into the should set the monkeys moving the) holes where the traps are set, and eld man would get a chance with usually the damage done was' not the shot gun, but the foliage was s0 serious, but in some cases the iron dense that he could see nothing at spikes wore driven clean through the all, and the one I shot was the only toe of the foot and the wound in= monkey we got that day, and, for fioted was fairly serious, that matter, the only further victim No, we were not entirely unmoof larger game that fell to our guns, lested by pundits, even in this far during the remainder of our stay in! mountain reireet, but, as already the mountains, But if the rain held! mentioned, ¢hete mountaineers wert us up on the shooting, we were more! made of different stuff from the pede fortunate with the traps, and on an! ple of the plains, and in the next average of every other day the men! and last of the articles of this series, would bring in some new specimen|T will tell of a time when my men that had not sufficiently watched and T went cit into. the mountain his step along the trails.
On one! passes to give these brigands buck ceation they brought in two serow a bit of the't own,
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