Savage Sudan : its wild tribes, big-game and bird-life (1921)
Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) · London ; Edinburgh : Gurney and Jackson · leaf 444
362 SAVAGE SUDAN then confronted us, I never remember to have seen. Inert and statuesque among* lustrous rocks, stood scores and scores of wild animals — phantom figures blending like spectres into their background and seeming to share its hues, or at most but a half-shade lighter. So far as they… … Ariel. silhouetted outlines, shadowy and unreal as simulacra. We felt as though we saw right through them. For a realistic glimpse of the scene I am here hope¬ lessly attempting to describe in cold print, see Millais" beautiful drawing of springbok on South-African veld- — {A Breath from the Veld,…
Hunting -- Sudan · Natural history -- Sudan · Sudan -- Description and travel
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