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Page 150
... trees . Through the center of the destruction , west to east , ran a great muddied thoroughfare of the sort described by Selous in the nineteenth century . Here the center of the herd had passed . The plane turned east- ward , coming up ...
... trees . Through the center of the destruction , west to east , ran a great muddied thoroughfare of the sort described by Selous in the nineteenth century . Here the center of the herd had passed . The plane turned east- ward , coming up ...
Page 151
... trees , lash- ing the air with their trunks , ears blowing , in a stiff - legged swinging stride ; they forded a steep gully as the main herd , ahead of them , appeared on a wooded rise . Ranging up and down the gully , we found a place ...
... trees , lash- ing the air with their trunks , ears blowing , in a stiff - legged swinging stride ; they forded a steep gully as the main herd , ahead of them , appeared on a wooded rise . Ranging up and down the gully , we found a place ...
Page 226
... Trees in this virgin place are huge - umbrella thorn and soaring fever trees , and here and there a mighty winterthorn ( A. albida ) , the noblest of all acacias , these interspersed with fat sycamore figs and sausage trees . But along ...
... Trees in this virgin place are huge - umbrella thorn and soaring fever trees , and here and there a mighty winterthorn ( A. albida ) , the noblest of all acacias , these interspersed with fat sycamore figs and sausage trees . But along ...
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