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might have had a running shot at 150 yards. It is a 

 remarkable fact that doe koodoo never seem to con- 

 sider it necessary to conceal themselves in the same 

 manner as bulls. Late in the evening I went for a 

 short stroll by the river, when a herd of six or eight 

 male waterbuck passed within 50 yards of me, and I 

 might easily have shot the biggest, with horns of 

 about 27 inches. 



June I3th. As H. was fit for work again, we went 

 for a long round in the ravines up-stream ; and found 

 tracks of male koodoo within a mile. H. and S. dis- 

 turbed them on the other side of a knoll by talking 

 when they were within 50 yards ; but I was relieved to 

 see that the horns only looked small. Two of them 

 halted a couple of hundred yards further, and were 

 obviously undersized, though H. implored me to 

 shoot the larger, which seemed to have 30-inch 

 horns. Further on H. passed by a large bull 

 koodoo without seeing it, whereas S., bringing up 

 the rear, detected it, but unluckily stopped and 

 pointed. Although it was only 80 yards off, all I 

 saw was a glimpse of horn as it made off. We took 

 up the trail, but it led straight across the cotton- 

 soil towards Gebel Maba, and we judged it better 

 to give it up as a bad job. Further on we found 

 tracks of a second solitary bull, but these also led into 

 the cotton-soil, obviously at full gallop. Presumably 

 the bull had our wind, so we gave up this trail also. 



