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moss-grown rocks, and felt again the cool wet bracken 

 about my feet. But only in my imagination. The 

 glare did not diminish ; consequently when I came 

 upon some impala an egregious miss at a good buck 

 was the result. 



As I was stalking him, there suddenly came an 

 indignant snort from a bush about ten yards off, and 

 an old rhino jumped to his feet looking very annoyed 

 at having been roused from his slumbers. I thought at 

 first he was going to charge us, but he blundered off, 

 and we saw his round dumpy quarters disappear over 

 the nearest sky-line at a fast trot. 



It is extraordinary how quickly rhinos can move, 

 considering their heavy appearance. It looks as if 

 they would take about ten minutes to get round, but 

 in reality they can turn on a sixpence. Later on in 

 the evening I stalked a couple of oryx which I came 

 on suddenly in some cactus scrub. Whilst so doing, 

 my old friends the impala put in an appearance. 

 There were seven bucks together, and one with a nice 

 head giving me a good chance. I managed to get 

 him. The oryx were just the other side of the bush, 

 and hearing the shot, they took a few steps forward. 

 Singling out the one which I took to be the bull, I 

 dropped him, and on going up was rather sorry to find 

 that I had shot another cow. It is hard to distinguish 

 the males from the females. Their horns are almost 

 exactly alike, though the bulls' are thicker and more 

 heavily ringed. Almost my last day in this oamp I 

 saw a very nice Grant. After one miss at longish 



