THE REDISCOVERED COUNTRY 97 



senses of smell and hearing, so that the mere sight of us 

 did not alarm. 



Zebra, impalla, topi, kongoni, waterbuck, and many 

 Bohur reedbuck, Tommy, and Robertsi were there in 

 numbers, but we saw little of them beyond the dust of 

 their going. By extraordinary stalking I wounded a 

 topi at 180 yards badly enough to cause him to turn 

 off from the herds. While following him I had a most 

 interesting experience. In a shady little grove with- 

 out underbrush stood a reedbuck, a graceful pretty 

 creature about the size of our California deer. His 

 head was up and he was staring at me. My course led 

 directly toward him. He did not move. Nearer and 

 nearer I walked, bolt upright and in plain sight, ex- 

 pecting every minute he would bound away, until I was 

 within five or six yards of him. Then, as he did not 

 move, I quietly turned aside and walked around him 

 about ten feet distant, and left him in his cool green 

 shadow, still staring. And then, just a few yards 

 farther on, I came across a family of sing-sing, some 

 lying down, some standing. They, too, stared at me, 

 in noble attitudes like a lot of Landseer's stags, until 

 I was within thirty yards. Then I caught sight of my 

 topi and fired at him across the sing-sing, and they 

 vanished. All this was under the shelter of woods 

 where there was no wind. Killed the topi at 200 yards. 



After that we spent a long time trying to get near 

 enough to a topi herd to procure one or more of the 



