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kilometres, and from laden men I did not wish 

 to demand more. 



Leaving my wife to watch the camp, I went out 

 with three men to endeavour to find some game. 

 For a long time we walked along a hill without seeing 

 anything, and I was inclined to a peevish grumbling, 

 when I saw a bushbuck, which I killed with one 

 bullet. 



The next morning we started at six o'clock and 

 passed, two hours afterwards, the river Bonde. When 

 they signalled me at the outskirts of a village named 

 Combezi, I made a halt, and repaired to the huts in 

 order to replenish my supply of meal. On my return, 

 at eleven o'clock, I lunched, and as I had learnt that 

 there was game in the neighbourhood I decided that 

 we would camp at the river Inhama-gouena, an hour 

 and a half distant. 



At two o'clock I went out and visited a superb 

 forest with low undergrowth. Unfortunately the wind 

 constantly shifted, to our great disadvantage. Several 

 times we catch sight of animals which are in flight, 

 and I am in doubt of success, when I see, at a distance 

 of two hundred yards, in a clearing, a troop of sable 

 antelope, comprising a dozen females and three grand 

 old males. Only one is in good view, the others are 

 lying down. The ball which I fired struck with force 

 and the animal fell, with broken shoulder-blades. 

 At the report the troop rose, examining the depths of 

 the forest. I was about to load, when an imbecile 



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