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way of shooting this buck. Sable can run at a great 

 pace and are good stayers, and it takes a very good 

 horse indeed to run them down; in fact, in seven 

 cases out of ten, the antelope will probably get the 

 better of the horse. If dogs are used, a single bull, 

 or one out of two or three, can be pretty often 

 brought to bay and shot ; but when dogs pursue a 

 biggish herd the chances are that the antelopes will all 

 press on and refuse to be brought to bay at all. It 

 is to be remembered, however, that few animals are 

 more destructive among a pack of dogs than the 

 sable antelope, which, using its horns freely and 

 viciously, will do enormous damage in a very few 

 minutes. Selous mentions having had four dogs 

 killed and four others wounded in the space of less 

 than a minute. He mentions also the case of one of 

 Lobengula's Matabele hunters being slain by a sable 

 antelope bull, which, on his approaching, charged him 

 and drove its horns clean through the man's body. 

 Where the sable has to be stalked on foot, in Central 

 and East Africa and other localities, where horses 

 cannot be employed, the chase is of course infinitely 

 more fatiguing. Where there are to be found hills 

 and rolling country, interspersed in the valleys with 

 ant-hills, trees, and scattered bush, good stalking is at 

 once provided, and the approach can, with due pre- 

 caution, be made without any great difficulty. Such 

 veldt is to met with in German East Africa, but 

 sportsmen will do well to bear in mind the fact that 

 German game regulations are at the present time 

 pretty severe. The flesh of this fine antelope is but 



