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of the heads, and neither M. nor A. would commit 

 himself to a definite opinion. Almost immediately 

 after we reached the meshra, the roan, which had 

 already drunk, began to move off, and we had to 

 make a circuit through some thick stuff, on emerging 

 from which M. detected one roan about 60 yards off. 

 He was soon joined by his companion, and both 

 began to graze behind a bush. I took advantage of 

 this to get within 40 yards, and when they emerged I 

 saw that one was obviously a mere youngster, but 

 that the other seemed to have a fair head. I there- 

 fore took the shot, and the bigger roan ran some 

 20 yards and dropped, his companion refusing to 

 leave until I literally drove him away. On measuring, 

 after M. had warned me of the danger of approaching 

 a wounded roan, I was disappointed to find that the 

 head, though most massive, only taped a short 25 

 inches. The animal's paunch was distended in an 

 extraordinary fashion, and when he was moved to 

 place him on the camel, which was brought from 

 camp three-quarters of a mile away, an astonish- 

 ing amount of water gushed out through the incision 

 made in his throat. In fact, the Arabs said that he 

 had laid in a three days' supply of water. He 

 weighed, when clean, 518 Ib. and measured 14'3 

 hands in height. As we were loading him, an Arab 

 came up saying that he had seen a buffalo that very 

 morning. However, two in a morning was a sufficient 



