12 HUNTING TRIPS 



or to which they are not accustomed, often 

 seems to drive them nearly beside themselves 

 with mingled fright and desire to know what 

 it is, a combination of feelings that throws 

 them into a perfect panic, during whose con- 

 tinuance they will at times seem utterly un- 

 able to take care of themselves. In very 

 remote, wild places, to which no white man 

 often penetrates, the appearance of a white- 

 topped wagon will be enough to excite this 

 feeling in the prong-horn, and in such cases 

 it is not unusual for a herd to come up and 

 circle round the strange object heedless of 

 rifle-shots. This curiosity is particularly 

 strong in the bucks during rutting-time, and 

 one method of hunting them is to take ad- 

 vantage of it, and " flag " them up to the 

 hunters by waving a red handkerchief or 

 some other object to and fro in the air. In 

 very wild places they can sometimes be 

 flagged up, even after they have seen the 

 man; but, elsewhere, the latter must keep 

 himself carefully concealed behind a ridge 

 or hillock, or in tall grass, and keep cau- 



