3i8 GUN, RIFLE, AND HOUND. 



down behind a clump of camel-thorns, while we circled 

 round them. With some little trouble we got them 

 to move in the required direction, but then they would 

 not stand. As they were walking along I saw a puff 

 of smoke, and as the accompanying report reached my 

 ear the big buck collapsed, while the others made off 

 with mighty bounds. The natives were considerably 

 astonished at H -'s performance, the distance being 

 about a hundred and seventy yards. 



This was the last chance we had, as our homeward 

 way lay over the plain we had worked in the morning. 



The tonga ponies were wretchedly bad, and at one 

 time I thought they would never get us, and their 

 additional load of a buck and two chikara, through the 

 heavy sand which lay between us and the high-road. 

 When we got home it was long after dinner-time, but 

 these are the minor annoyances that the sportsman 

 has to put up with. Indeed, the next time we went 

 out we fared much worse, for no sooner had we got to 

 our shooting-ground than the most terrific duststorm 

 I have ever seen came on. For some hours we 

 wandered on, having 'utterly lost our way among the 

 blinding sand, and when we did get home we were as 

 black as the buck we had not seen. 



