On one occasion I got within 100 yards of five elephants standing in long grass in a hollow, and watched them for some time from the top of a rock whilst they had a dust-bath.
At seven miles we came upon a plain of long grass, which seems to have been flooded.
We were enabled to cross it safely by cutting a large quantity of long grass, laying it on the sides of the banks, with a few logs and pickets driven into the bed to prevent the current from carrying away the grass.
At twelve miles, finding some water, the horses being tired in crossing so many small creeks, and working through the scrub and long grass, I camped at the open ground.
A slight depression in the ground, with perhaps a few straws for lining, suffices for a nest; it is sometimes placed amid a tuft of rushes or long grass.
The nest consists of a few dead leaves huddled together in some hollow in the ground, among the heath, long grass, or fern; it is frequently found at the foot of a furze or other bush.
This animal, which the Caffres termed Impenze, was very cunning, and could conceal itself in long grass in a wonderful way.
It first crawled slowly along the ground till near its prey, or waited in long grass, or in bushes, till some animal or bird came near.
I have often found them sleeping in patches of long grass, and have had many a good gallop after them.
I once wounded a large hyæna as he ran out of a patch of long grass, where he had been lying asleep.
They usually build inside bushes, or in long grass.
The Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) usually lay their large white eggs on the ground inlong grass or thick undergrowth.
It consisted of a good-sized ball of coarse blades of dry grass, with an entrance on one side, and was built in long grass about a foot from the ground.
It nests in long grass on the Patnas in the Central Province, in guinea-grass fields, and in sugarcane-brakes where these exist, as in the Galle District for instance.
I left my horse, and slid along to within six hundred yards of the herd without attracting their attention, and lay down in a small patch of long grass to watch proceedings.
Their Hutts are made like a behive, and open on one side where they have their fires; they are made of small Sticks and covered with branches of trees, long Grass, etc.
The framing is of wood or small sticks, and the sides and Covering of thatch made of long Grass.
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