GRANTS GAZELLE 



set out after them. The wind was right, and there 

 was plenty of cover, so I was soon fairly close to them. 

 As they were now feeding quietly towards me, 

 totally unconscious of my presence, I lay down to 

 wait for them, and in about twenty minutes a fine 

 buck came out from behind a bush about a hundred 

 and fifty yards off. I fired, hitting him a trifle behind 

 the heart. At the shot four more appeared, and all 

 five made a tremendous dash towards me, but, 

 suddenly catching sight of my mule and followers in 

 the distance, halted and turned within fifteen yards 

 of where I lay behind the bush. I had a glimpse of 

 these beautiful gazelles, their graceful heads and 

 slender horns, before firing again. The buck 

 collapsed to the shot, the bullet entering just above 

 the tail and lodging under the skin of the chest. On 

 examining it I was immensely pleased to notice that 

 it was a variety of Grant's gazelle that was entirely 

 new to me. Although in bodily size and horn- 

 measurement it resembled a Peter's gazelle, yet in 

 colour it was more closely akin to Bright's gazelle. 

 In a subsequent chapter I propose to deal more 

 fully with these differences, and to describe in detail 

 the characteristics of what is undoubtedly a distinct 

 race of Grant's gazelle. 



I did not go out again till the afternoon, when I 

 made my way slowly on foot through the most 

 atrociously thick bush and thorn-scrub to the top of 

 Eyladera, the low ridge that runs north-east and south- 

 west between Gobwein and Yonti, in order to dc 

 some geographical work. In spite of the heat and 

 thorns, I was very glad I came, for when I reached 

 the summit the view well repaid me for my trouble. 

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