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taking game, but the one recognized as most sports- 

 manlike. The use of dogs has almost everywhere been 

 prohibited by law. 



Stalking was, I have observed, difficult, even where 

 the antelopes were abundant and fairly tame. If they 

 did not come to the hunter, by reason of their curios, 

 ity overcoming their fear, and he set out to follow 

 them, it was next to impossible to get within range, 

 provided they discovered the hunter before, or at the 

 same time, he saw them. They seemed to realize the 

 danger, and ran off at once to the top of a ridge, where 

 they surveyed their enemy for a time, and then ran 

 with marvellous speed to another ridge or hill, always 

 keeping the hunter in sight, moving when he moved 

 and remaining always far out of range. All hunters 

 are agreed that the best thing to be done in such cases 

 is to at once admit defeat, give up the game, remount 

 and ride away to other ground to seek other animals 

 and endeavor to get sight of them before being dis- 

 covered. A good glass here is of great assistance. 

 The sportsman rides slowly about on the ridges, stop- 

 ping now and then to examine the country, and going 

 up all grades with great care, so that he may peep 

 over and survey intervening valleys and depressions 

 and examine the ridges beyond without being himself 

 observed. 



When the game is discovered the approach is care- 

 fully planned, so as to take advantage of the wind and 

 any cover there may be. The antelopes sec well, hear 

 well, and, like the deer, they have the most remark- 

 able sense of smell, and it is idle to attempt to get 

 near them going down wind. If, from the nature of 



