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for nature provides far more males than are necessary for 
reproduction. It is a pretty safe plan to select single bulls 
feeding by themselves. They nearly always carry a good 
horn. Oryx are sometimes rather difficult to approach, but 
with these antelopes, as with all the big game I know of 
in this country, perseverance is the sure road to success. 
When you have selected the animal carrying the trophy, wait; 
follow him, follow him as long as you can travel. If one 
stalk fail, wait a while, sit down and smoke a pipe, and fol- 
low him again. I have made four long and unsuccessful 
stalks in one day, on oryx, then sat down and waited until 
they began feeding at two miles off, then made my fifth 
attempt and secured my head. A good bull oryx often 
accompanies a large herd of zebra. It is therefore well to 
look the herds of zebra over carefully with your glass. If 
you can, separate your game from the zebra, as these often 
make an approach impossible. Never be discouraged, even 
in the morning you find the oryx almost unapproachable. 
Later in the day you will in all likelihood secure an easy 
stalk. 
Six or eight miles up the Guasi Nyiro above its junction 
with the Guasi Narok, and some three or four miles out on 
the plain, among the giant kopjes that are here scattered over 
the country, seems the favourite haunt of this splendid an- 
telope. Let me add the warning I have repeated in another 
chapter. Go up to a wounded oryx carefully. And above 
all, when your gunbearer is hallaling him (cutting his 
throat), stand clear of the sweep of his long sharp horn. He 
can, even when dying, deliver a lightning-like sweeping 
thrust. In this way one of our gunbearers, an old and care- 
ful hand, was wounded in the leg. Lion have been found 
dead, impaled ona dead oryx’s horns. 
On these great game-browsed meadows, and around the 
red granite kopjes that dot them, many lions still roam. 
You will nightly hear their deep, coughing, grunting cry. 
