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evident in the landscape, it behoved him to be careful 

 as to what niit(ht be liidden therein, and he shied so at 

 each bush we passed that we progressed in series of 

 loops. So off I jumped, throwing the reins over his 

 head, and opened fire once more ; and this time the 

 great bull went down for good. 



Tranquillity recovered his nerve at once, and grazed 

 contentedly while I admired the huge proportions and 

 beautiful colouring of my prize. In a few minutes 

 Captain Slatter loped up, and the gun-bearers and saises 

 followed. As if by magic, three or four Wakamba 

 turned up immediately afterward, their eyes glistening 

 at the thought of the feast ahead for the whole tribe. 

 It was mid-afternoon, and there was no time to waste. 

 My sais, Simba, an excellent long-distance runner, was 

 sent straight to camp to get Heller and jiilot him back 

 to the dead giraffes. Beside each of the latter — for 

 they had fallen a mile apart — we left a couple of men 

 to build fires. Then we rode toward camp. To my 

 regret, the smaller giraffe turned out to be a young bull 

 and not a cow. 



At this very time, and utterly without our knowledge, 

 there was another giraffe hunt going on. Sir Alfred 

 had taken out Kermit and JMedlicott, and they came 

 across a herd of a dozen giraffes right out in the open 

 plains. JMedlicott \s horse was worn out, and he could 

 not keep up, but both the others were fairly well 

 mounted. Both were light men and hard riders, and, 

 although the giraffes had three-quarters of a mile the 

 start, it was not long before both were at the heels of 

 the herd. They singled out the big bull — which, by the 

 way, turned out to be an even bigger bull than mine — 

 and fired at him as they galloped. In such a headlong, 

 helter-skelter chase, however, it is no easy matter to 



