Bushbuck 



made certain the latter wouldn't be there as the 

 waterbuck went off with a crash and a rush ; so 

 I stopped and shouted for my orderly, whom I 

 had left some way behind, and, in fact, made 

 the deuce of a row, before proceeding to walk 

 about to see if there were any signs of the bush- 

 buck disappearing. Quite five minutes after the 

 man had arrived, while we were discussing what 

 to do next, the bushbuck bolted out of the very 

 bush he had originally been standing near, and 

 beside which we had been sitting down talking. 

 I lost him, as I had laid my rifle down on the 

 ground, and had my glasses out. Bushbuck are 

 very shy and timid indeed, and probably that one 

 had been so frightened at my sudden and close 

 approach, that he had lain " doggoh " in the 

 bush, sweating blood with funk. 



There is, of course, in forest country the old 

 game of going out in the evening for an hour or 

 so, and sitting down quietly to admire nature, as 

 well as to wait for a bushbuck to come along, 

 but that has been described elsewhere. 



Quite recently a friend of mine returned to 

 Bombo, the head-quarters of the King's African 

 Rifles, near Kampala in Uganda, with his 

 company from detachment, in the Hoima district, 

 bringing in with him, amongst other trophies, the 

 heads of three bushbuck which he had shot. 

 Their horns are all abnormally thick, and all of a 

 uniform length — more or less — over ly^ inches, 

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