Hunting in East Africa 



We supported the caravan on meat. I used 

 only the .450 Express; but my servant, George 

 Galvin, who used the Winchester, did better 

 execution with his weapon than I with mine. 



Here, for the first and last time in my Af- 

 rican experiences, we had a drive. Our camp 

 was pitched on a low escarpment, at the bottom 

 of which, and some 300 feet away, lay the 

 water. The escarpment ran east and west, and 

 extended beyond the camp some 500 yards, 

 where it ended abruptly in a clifT forty or fifty 

 feet high. Some of my men, who were at the 

 end of the escarpment gathering wood, came 

 running into camp and said that great num- 

 bers of game were coming toward the water. 

 I took my servant and we ran to the end of 

 the escarpment, where a sight thrilling indeed 

 to the sportsman met our eyes. First came 

 two or three hundred wildbeest in a solid 

 mass; then four or five smaller herds, num- 

 bering perhaps forty each, of hartbeest ; then 

 two herds, one of mpallah and one of grantii. 

 There must have been 500 head in the lot. 

 They were approaching in a slow, hesitating 

 manner, as these antelope always do approach 

 water, especially when going down wind. 



Our cover was perfect and the wind blowing 

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