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halt by the roadside, where we meet the bullo< cart, to 

 transfer the lunch-basket the start across th ovel far- 

 stretching antelope plains and then, the morr g's sport 

 adjourned, the shade of yonder thick wide-bra hing old 

 mango tree, lunch, a bottle of nectar-like b r, and a 

 quiet smoke. Does not that recall many a pl< iant day 

 in this much-maligned land ? 



Besides buck, the plains yielded us chi ara and 

 nilgae, that is to say, in the neighbourhood of he lower 

 foot-hills ; and the latter^ being in those reg ns a very 

 different animal to the typically confidentia 3lue-bull, 

 capital stalking they afforded as they wended leir way 

 into the low hills in the grey of the morning at r a night 

 spent among the crops of the open country. Tl beef-lov- 

 ing Mahomedan of the native city and bazars lad long 

 since driven most of the nilgae from the gro d within 

 easy reach of Cantonments, but a dozen miles c so along 

 the base of the hills, either west or east, br ght them 

 within reach of the sportsman. 



Of course these large antelope are a perfec courge to 

 the cultivators, whose fields lie near their baui and are 

 subject to the depredations of Portax Rictus or, s he has 

 lately been named, Boselaphus tr ago came his. >o it was 

 quite a common thing, on cutting one up, t< liscover a 

 native bullet or slug embedded in its flesh, enclo d in a cyst 

 of hardened gristly tissue. The blue-bull is ai strange 

 creature indeed, with his high withers, leai horse-like 

 head, thick crest, drooping quarters and cow-li tail, and 

 very similar in build to many African antelope What a 

 trophy he would afford did he only grow horn in accord 

 with his enormous bulk horns, for instance, li * those of 

 the sable antelope of Africa, whom he in any ways 

 resembles ! 



