THE LARGER EAST AFRICAN ANTELOPES 



the same, so that I used steel-capped bullets instead. These 

 seemed, however, to have so little effect upon the animal 

 that I soon came to the conclusion that it was too cruel and 

 unprofitable to use anything but the regular, deadly '' dum- 

 dum " bullet. If wounded and cornered the Grant's gazelle 

 sometimes gives vent to harsh barks, somewhat similar to 

 those of an angry goat. Each sportsman is now allowed 

 to kill but three of these lovely little antelopes, but as a 

 good many settlers shoot numbers of them every year for 

 food, and some of the best grazing lands are being rapidly 

 taken up for cultivation or fenced in for cattle, the time 

 may come when the Grant's gazelle will become very rare 

 and perhaps exterminated, except in the game preserves. 



