Lichtenstein Hartebeest 
is quite common in this neighbourhood, and 
the dogs would probably have succumbed to 
their bites in a short time. 
From the main camp [I still visited the buffalo 
kills, when I could summon up strength of mind 
to face the stench, which was the more trying 
as it was necessary to do so before breakfast and 
on an empty stomach. 
I went out one day to a big open flat, where I 
found seven Lichtenstein hartebeest, and leaving 
Cooe with the °577, I stalked this herd. With 
my glasses I spotted a good bull, which was a 
little beyond the rest. The cover in this place 
was almost nil: a few stunted bushes and a 
white-ant hill or two. They were some three 
hundred yards away from us when I started 
my crawl, but by lying flat and crawling with 
the greatest care I managed to reach an ant- 
hill, which enabled me to get a hundred yards 
hearer, where I took a rest. The grass had 
been burnt off the country a short time previ- 
ously, the young and new grass on which the 
game was feeding coming up thickly on the 
burnt parts. 
The perspiration streamed down my face, 
my hands and knees were sore and bleeding 
from contact with the short stubs of the burnt 
grass, and I was, moreover, as black as a sweep. 
After a few minutes’ rest I cautiously peeped 
round the foot of the ant-hill, and to my delight 
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