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might otherwise escape. If you have a brace of good 

 greyhounds in the distance ready to slip, the chances 

 will be still better. A wounded buck often gives a 

 beautiful run with greyhounds, which have never been 

 known to catch an untouched and perfect antelope 

 on fair hard ground, though under conditions unduly 

 favourable to the dogs they have sometimes done so. 

 A shooting horse, like several which I have possessed, 

 who is quite steady under fire, does not need to be 

 tied, and will come to call, is a perfect treasure for 

 many sorts of sport in India. As in all good qualities, 

 the Arab is the most likely to develop such a character ; 

 but most horses are capable of being taught something 

 of the business. Should neither horse nor hounds be 

 at hand, a wounded buck should not be followed up 

 too quickly. If left to himself he will probably lie 

 down in the first cover he comes to ; and by watching 

 the line he takes you may often follow up and secure 

 him. 



In upper India they are frequently shot by ap- 

 proaching them on a riding camel. The more bells 

 and gay trappings he has on him the better, as the 

 antelope on this plan fall victims to their curiosity 

 and amazement. I brought down to Central India 

 with me a trained camel, with which I had thus be- 

 wildered many an antelope into rifle distance ; but 

 after getting some dangerous tumbles, owing to the 

 yawning cracks that form in the black soil in these 

 provinces after the rains, I had to abandon the camel 

 as a shooting vehicle. As a sport antelope-shooting 

 palls upon the taste. There is too much of it, and 

 it lacks variety. So I should think also w^ould be 

 the case with much of the African sport we read of. 



