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expect good work from them, make them look out their 
best man for you, keep them to it when they think they 
are beaten, and you will have always an interesting and 
sometimes, as you deserve, a successful time. 
Even if your gunboy can track, as mine can, you need 
a man at your hand whose eyes are not on the ground but 
above it, and in the surrounding grass or bush. See a lot 
of men unaccustomed to African hunting, and probably 
they all of them will have their eyes on the ground at the 
same time. The first thing you know there is a crash or 
a growl and the beast is away. Insist, and keep on insisting, 
that the man who carries your rifle, look not on the ground, 
but ahead of him and around. 
Rhino, in spite of their great weight, are difficult to 
track once they are travelling on the inconceivably hard, 
sunbaked ground. ‘They seem most aimless of all beasts, 
there is no purpose in their wanderings. They will move 
quite rapidly, too, in all directions. No one can predict 
safely their course. 
Lions, generally move in a large curve or half-circle. 
It pays, therefore, to follow them and follow them for hours. 
One track is apt to lead you at last to quite a family con- 
clave. 
Impala, spring off on a seemingly steady course, but 
‘never keep it. No wounded beast is more artful than this 
beautiful antelope. 
Bush buck, crouch and hide, like a fox. Water buck, 
will cunningly find a patch of thorn, so exactly correspond- 
ing with their own coats, that nothing but the closest hunting 
will find the wounded or dead game. 
Oryx, generally go pretty straight, and the sharp hoof 
beneath the heavy body, make them perhaps easiest of all 
to follow. 
Always see your head skins, if you want them, taken 
off yourself. See them packed with grass or green twigs, 
