buck feeding among the oxen only a couple of 

 hundred yards away. He had been quite close 

 to it, he said, and it was very tame. Game, 

 so readily alarmed by the sight of white men, will 

 often take no notice of natives, allowing them to 

 approach to very close quarters. They are also 

 easily stalked under cover of cattle or horses, and much 

 more readily approached on horseback than on foot. 

 The presence of other animals seems to give them con- 

 fidence or to excite mild curiosity without alarm, 

 and thus distract attention from the man. In this 

 case the bonny little red-brown fellow was not a bit 

 scared ; he maintained his presence of mind admirably ; 

 from time to time he turned his head our way and, 

 with his large but shapely and most sensitive ears 

 thrown forward examined us frankly while he moved 

 slightly one way or another so as to keep under cover 

 of the oxen and busily continue his browsing. 



Tn and out among some seventy head of cattle we 

 played hide-and-seek for quite a while I not daring 

 to fire for fear of hitting one of the bullocks until 

 at last he found himself manoeuvred out of the troop ; 

 and then without giving me a chance he was off into 

 the bush in a few frisky skips. I followed quietly, 

 knowing that as he was on the feed and not scared he 

 would not go far. 



Moving along silently under good cover I reached 

 a thick scrubby bush and peered over the top of it 

 to search the grass under the surrounding thorn trees 

 for the little red-brown form. I was looking about 

 low down in the russety grass for he was only about 

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