

chap. vii. TWO DEER AT ONE SHOT. 147 



others were standing. A buck and doe presently- 

 quitted the herd, and advancing a few paces from the 

 bush they halted, and evidently winded me. I was 

 screening myself behind a small tree, and the open 

 ground between me and the game precluded the pos- 

 sibility of a nearer approach. It was a random dis- 

 tance for a deer, but I took a rest against the stem of 

 the tree and fired at the buck as he stood with his 

 broadside exposed, being shoulder to shoulder with 

 the doe. Away went the herd, flying over the plain ; 

 but, to my delight, there were two white bellies 

 struggling upon the ground. I ran up to cut their 

 throats ; l the two-ounce ball had passed through the 

 shoulders of both ; and I stepped the distance to the 

 tree from which I had fired, ' two hundred and thirteen 

 paces.' 



Shortly after this I got another shot which, by 

 a chance, killed two deer. I was strolling through a 

 narrow glade with open jungles upon either side, when 

 I suddenly heard a quick double shot, followed by the 

 rush of a large herd of deer coming through the 

 jungle. I immediately lay flat upon the ground, and 

 presently an immense herd of full a hundred deer 

 passed across the glade at full gallop, within seventy 

 yards of me. Jumping up, I fired at a doe, and, to 

 my surprise, two deer fell to the shot, one of which 



1 This is necessary to allow the blood to escape, otherwise they 

 would be unfit for food 



