110 WILD LIFE AMONGST BEASTIES in leaf, but only the pendent pods are now visible.

These vary in size and shape, there being certainly two distinct varieties in this district, one pod being of an elongated egg -shape, about 9 inches in length, while the other is considerably longer and no more in diameter.

Wild-figs, too, were in evidence, but were immature and useless.

It is often a subject for remark that it is almost invariably the European who is the first to spot game. This is certainly not the fault of the eyesight of the native, which appears equal to that of a white man aided by a Zeiss binocular magnifying twelve diameters. On the White Nile, a Dinka pointed out antelope on a distant fringe of bush which it took me all my time to distinguish with the glass.

But unless the shikari is very keen as a sportsman —as was the departed Shereef—if he have obtained his supply of meat, he is liable to go to sleep while travelling, and to lose himself in dreams of an earthly Paradise. Not only his eyesight grows dim, but his hearing, and so particularly was this the case with one of my men, that on three separate occasions he failed to see roan antelope, and also to hear the "cluck" of the tongue which was the recognized signal that game was in view.

There must have been many of these noble creatures in the neighbourhood that day, for, on camping in the early evening, Fadl el JNIullah and Bachit, son of Abdullah—both desirous of becom-