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eggs, they soon burst. Evidently the young are hatched 

 in the cool earth and dig their way out. 



We continued our walk and soon came on some kob. 

 At two hundred yards I got a fine buck, though he went a 

 quarter of a mile. Then, at a hundred and fifty yards, I 

 dropped a straw-colored Nile hartebeest. Sending in the 

 kob and hartebeest used up all our porters but two, and I 

 mounted the little mule and turned toward camp, having 

 been out three hours. Soon Gouvimali pointed out a big 

 bustard, marching away through the grass a hundred yards 

 off. I dismounted, shot him through the base of the neck, 

 and remounted. Then Kongoni pointed out, some distance 

 ahead, a bushbuck ram, of the harnessed kind found in 

 this part of the Nile Valley. Hastily dismounting, and 

 stealing rapidly from ant-heap to ant-heap, until I was not 

 much over a hundred yards from him, I gave him a fatal 

 shot; but the bullet was placed a little too far back, and he 

 could still go a considerable distance. So far I had been 

 shooting well; now, pride had a fall. Immediately after 

 the shot a difficulty arose in the rear between the mule and 

 the shenzi sais; they parted company, and the mule joined 

 the shooting party in front, at a gallop. The bushbuck, 

 which had halted with its head down, started off and I 

 trotted after it, while the mule pursued an uncertain course 

 between us; and I don't know which it annoyed most. I 

 emptied my magazine twice, and partly a third time, be- 

 fore I finally killed the buck and scared the mule so that it 

 started for camp. The bushbuck in this part of the Nile 

 Valley did not live in dense forest, like those of East Africa, 

 but among the scattered bushes and acacias. Those that 

 I shot in the Lado had in their stomachs leaves, twig tips, 



