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bank towards which he had been retreating, and 

 completely puzzled him, with the result that he 

 began to return to the river, and my next shot com- 

 pletely crippled his hind-quarters. He continued 

 to slowly approach the river, receiving three more 

 shots, all of which told, and finally sank in the 

 water close to the edge, when we crossed and 

 finished him with the knife. The head was a fine 

 one, measuring 29J inches, the record being 35 

 inches. 



February IQth, Spent the night in bed, and the 

 early morning in attending to the dead waterbuck. 

 We afterwards had to return to the scene of action 

 to recover my field-glasses, which had been left 

 behind in the dark. Later I went to the big meshra, 

 and sat there until 11.30 a.m. Just before 11 a.m. 

 a buck oribi came down to graze, and as I had not 

 secured one of these little creatures I was tempted to 

 stalk him, which, for a wonder, I did with success, 

 though the little animal did actually detect me and 

 moved off, but not far enough for safety. The final 

 result was a shot at 30 yards over the high bank, 

 when I blew his shoulders all to pieces. The horns 

 were 3J inches. The effect of the bullet was such as 

 to make it appear marvellous how the previous oribi 

 could have gone off clean with a wound from a -350 

 rifle, as the total weight of the little creature was 

 only 31 Ib. The afternoon was spent mainly over the 



