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back, and told him to tell the people to make all 

 the noise they could, and fire their guns, so as to 

 start any animal that might be in the cover ; and 

 in less than half an hour there was a row as if 

 Pandemonium had broken loose. 



First two n'cheri antelopes came bounding into 

 the plain, then two sounders of hog trotted past 

 me with their snouts in the air, and afterwards 

 three gorillas went shuffling over the prairie, on all 

 fours. They were out of range, and I was just 

 about to try and cut them off by running, when a 

 fourth came out of the bush, and I could see he 

 was the one I had wounded by his limping gait, 

 besides every few paces he would fall down. As 

 soon as he was well clear of the cover, I ran 

 towards him, and got within twenty yards, when 

 he again fell, and I could see that, besides being 

 wounded in the belly, his thigh was broken, and 

 he had great difficulty in dragging himself along. 

 He rose up on my approach, but instead of 

 "beating his breast, and showing fight," he 

 moaned most piteously, and tried to drag himself 

 back into the bush he had just left, when, I shot 



