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and myself, and off we started in hot pursuit. 

 After he had gone about a quarter of a mile, the 

 wolf noticed us following him, and, dropping the 

 kid, went and sat down on his haunches some way 

 farther on. In vain did we try to stalk the wary 

 brute, he always kept just out of shot, so I 

 eventually returned and concealed myself behind 

 a boulder near the carcase of the kid (which he 

 had half eaten as he carried it in his mouth, running 

 away as he was at the time !) in the hope that he 

 would return for it. It was no good, he was far too 

 cunning to come back, and we never saw him 

 again. That night we encamped in an adjacent 

 ravine, in the hopes of seeing goa, but only does 

 showed themselves, and the one object of interest 

 was a lot of kyang who came down and closely 

 inspected the camp. 



On the following day we went up on to the 

 plateau again, and after sighting some nyan ewes 

 and lambs (one of the former was lame, surely no 

 "sportsman" had fired at and wounded her), and a 

 few doe goa, we at length saw a solitary buck 

 gazelle. We endeavoured to stalk him, but he had 

 seen us, and though after some hours' work I got* a 

 shot at him at about three hundred yards, I was 

 scarcely surprised when I missed him clean, as this 

 little animal stands only some eighteen inches high. 

 On the morrow (August 7th) we left the higher 

 ground, and made for a camping place on the edge 



of the Nimak-Talao, called Thugji. On the way 



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