A Herd of Quaggas. 171 



run awav if lions appeared. After riding- along 

 for more than a couple of hours in Indian file, Lee 

 discovered a herd of about a dozen quaggas. Cap- 

 tain AVilliams dismounted and iired at one that 

 was facing him, and i\^Yi\y dashed tlie herd with us 

 in liot pursuit. AVe soon came up Avith them, and 

 in a spot where the veldt Avas fairly open I got a 

 capital shot from nrv horse's back at a quagga that 

 was galloping along about 100 yards away. To 

 my great delight he dropped to the shot. I found 

 afterwards that the bullet had hit him high on 

 the back, which it broke, AYe galloped on, keep- 

 ing the game in view, and had four more shots 

 with uncertain effect. This herd of quaggas bound- 

 ing through the bush presented a lovely appearance. 

 Soon we halted, as it was no use killing any moi"e 

 of them. It would not have been difficult to kill 

 the whole lot. On going back we found the one 

 Captain AVilliams had originally fired at lying- 

 dead, shot through the chest. The skinning of the 

 two dead quaggas occupied the best part of two 

 hours, when we resumed the chase, determined to 

 kill no more (juaggas. AVe had not gone two 

 hundred yards when we pei'cei\'ed a solitary one 

 grazing. As we watched it it lay down. On our 

 approach with harmless intentions, it lx)unded off, 

 when we discovered it was badly wounded. AVe 

 galloped after it, thinking it better to finish it off. 

 The chase lasted ten minutes, diu'ing which it 

 received three bullets without dropping. A ball 

 from mv Eraser express finally settled him. Pro- 

 ceeding to skin him and to water the horses in a 



