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tion with shooting two of the impalla, there occurred little 

 incidents which are worthy of mention. 



In one case I had just killed a waterbuck cow, hitting 

 it at a considerable distance and by a lucky fluke, after a 

 good deal of bad shooting. We started the porters in with 

 the waterbuck, and then rode west through an open coun- 

 try, dotted here and there with trees and with occasional 

 ant-hills. In a few minutes we saw an impalla buck, and 

 I crept up behind an ant-hill and obtained a shot at about 

 two hundred and fifty yards. The buck dropped, and as I 

 was putting in another cartridge I said to Judd that I 

 didn't like to see an animal drop like that, so instanta- 

 neously, as there was always the possibility that it might 

 only be creased, and that if an animal so hurt got up, it 

 always went off exactly as if unhurt. When we raised our 

 eyes again to look for the impalla it had vanished. I was 

 sure that we would never see it again, and Judd felt much 

 the same way, but we walked in the direction toward which 

 its head had been pointed, and Judd ascended an ant-hill 

 to scan the surrounding country with his glasses. He did 

 so, and after a minute remarked that he could not see the 

 wounded impalla; when a sudden movement caused us 

 to look down, and there it was, lying at our very feet, on 

 the side of the ant-hill, unable to rise. I had been using a 

 sharp-pointed bullet in the Springfield, and this makes 

 a big hole. The bullet had gone too far back, in front of 

 the hips. I should not have wondered at all if the animal 

 had failed to get up after falling, but I did not understand 

 why, as it recovered enough from the shock to be able to 

 get up, it had not continued to travel, instead of falling 

 after going one hundred yards. Indeed, I am inclined to 



