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that, in spite of its taking no notice of our shouts, it was 

 not until three or four stones had struck it that we 

 believed that it was really dead. The antelope's horn 

 had entered under the point of the shoulder, and pene- 

 trated directly into the vitals. 



The nkonka is one of the few of the small antelopes 

 which I have never killed right and left. I once, however, 

 shot one with its consort in that way. I and my Kaffir 

 attendant were returning home after being at a native 

 hunting party, and while going along a ridge I suddenly 

 saw an nkonka walk out of a large strip of jungle below 

 us, and, after standing about for a few minutes, go into a 

 clump of bushes about a hundred yards from it. Feeling 

 sure that the instant it was disturbed it would return the 

 way it came, I at once sent the native round to come above 

 it, and then going through the jungle, I passed out into 

 the open and concealed myself behind a cabbage-tree. In 

 a few minutes the advancing Kaffir roused the buck, 

 which cantered leisurely down, and passed under the 

 shade of the very tree under which I was standing, 

 falling dead just beyond, shot through the shoulder. As 

 I fired, an imbabala jumped up out of the grass, where it 

 had been lying, about thirty yards off, and instantly 

 wheeling, I fired a snap-shot at it with my second barrel, 

 and on going up to the place we found her also dead. 



Of the other two species inhabiting the jungles, the 

 red buck (Cephalopus Natalensis) is the larger, and also 

 the least common. It is, as its name denotes, of a light 

 yellowish red colour, mingled with grey on the lower 

 parts, and its chief peculiarity is a tuft of hair growing 

 out of the forehead, which gives a curious appearance to 



