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about 800 yards, and when H. finally did see him, he 

 asked whether he was not within shot ! He slowly 

 went over the brow, and we made best speed for the 

 place where he had vanished, but found only his 

 tracks down the other side, and then it was time to 

 return to camp. 



June Ntth. It was raining at daybreak, and I did 

 not get ofl until 7 a.m., when I judged that it would 

 be too late to lie in wait on Gebel Maba. We there- 

 fore went up-stream along the ravines, seeing the 

 tracks of female koodoo two or three times, once 

 disturbing a doe, and later on three. After an hour 

 we found the tracks of a solitary bull, and took up 

 the trail. We went along as quietly as possible, and 

 after rather less than a mile H. pointed to the left, 

 when I saw the bull 80 yards off among the trees, but 

 he vanished before my rifle could reach my shoulder, 

 and I could not be even sure of the size of his horns, 

 although thought them smaller than those of the Gebel 

 bull. We still followed the trail, and a mile further on 

 H. appeared to catch a glimpse of him, but I saw 

 nothing. Further tracking was obviously useless, as 

 the bull was thoroughly alarmed, so we returned to 

 camp. In the afternoon we struck the trail once more, 

 and came upon the bull before we had gone a quarter 

 of a mile. Unfortunately we could see nothing, though 

 we must have been within 50 yards. We followed the 

 trail, and found that he had been joined by another 



