376 THRILLING ADVENTURES. 



A KLIPSPRINGER. 



rajige of high table-land to the northward, along the base of 

 which, for an extent of many miles, stretched a dense forest 

 of wait-a-bit thorns and mimosas. This forest was the head- 

 quarters of the koodoos, and for it they now held, breaking 

 away across the above-mentioned flat. That forest, however, 

 the finest koodoo was destined never to reach. As soon as 

 we got clear of the rocky ground our horses gained upon them 

 at every stride; and Cobus, who was invariably far before 

 me in every chase, was soon alongside of the finest. Here, 

 in the dense bushes, we lost sight of his comrade. Cobus 

 very soon prevailed on the koodoo to alter his tack, and strike 

 off at a tangent from his former course ; when, by Jtahing a 

 short cut like a grayhound running cunning, I got within 

 range, and with a single ball I rolled him over in the dust. I 

 felt more pleasure in obtaining this fine specimen of a buck 

 koodoo than any thing I had yet shot in Africa. He was a 

 first-rate old buck, and carried a pair of ponderous, long, 

 wide-set spiral horns. 



