CHAPTER VIII. 



ANECDOTES OF ANTELOPES. 



I HAVE already in another part of this book referred to 

 the skill displayed by the gnu in the use of its horns. 

 This antelope perhaps occurs more frequently than any 

 other, but is so extremely wary that fewer are killed by 

 the native hunters than of any other species. Europeans, 

 however, find them good practice in rifle-shooting, as they 

 will stand in herds at a distance which they think secure, 

 say three hundred or four hundred yards, and watch the 

 passer-by. Only twice have I succeeded by fair stalking 

 in getting quite close. In the first instance a native 

 hunter and I were returning from breaking up a buffalo 

 which I had shot the previous day, and on our way home 



