CHAPTER VIII 
Eland—Lions—Baboons—Return to Fontesvilla—Guinea-fowl 
—Shoot Waterbuck—The Dingi-Dingi—Lions—Buffalo — 
Warthogs. 
Here stand we both, and aim we at the best.—Henry VI. 
EXT I went hunting eland, putting 
up at a primitive store, and going 
out the day after my arrival, was 
lucky enough to find a herd of some five-and- 
twenty of these grand beasts, with a splenaa 
bull amongst them. 
The country was like an English park, lovely 
glades, and here and there gigantic trees—an 
ideal spot for game. 
I left my three boys in the distance, and 
accompanied only by Cooe, managed to stalk 
the big bull to within eighty yards. I could not 
get a shot at him, as he was surrounded by cows 
and calves, some lying down, and I must have 
lain hidden behind some bushes for twenty 
minutes when the whole herd became alarmed, 
having, as I feared, sighted the boys, whom I 
had particularly enjoined to keep out of sight. 
The position became much worse when the 
eland bunched. themselves into a dense mass, 
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