CHAPTER VIII 



Eland Lions Baboons Return to Fontesvilla Guinea-fowl 

 Shoot Waterbuck The Dingi-Dingi Lions Buffalo 

 Warthogs. 



Here stand we both, and aim we at the best. HENRY VI. 



NEXT I went hunting eland, putting 

 up at a primitive store, and going 

 out the day after my arrival, was 

 lucky enough to find a herd of some five-and- 

 twenty of these grand beasts, with a splendid 

 bull amongst them. 



The country was like an English park, lovely 

 glades, and here and there gigantic trees an 

 ideal spot for game. 



I left my three boys in the distance, and 

 accompanied only by Cooe, managed to stalk 

 the big bull to within eighty yards. I could not 

 get a shot at him, as he was surrounded by cows 

 and calves, some lying down, and I must have 

 lain hidden behind some bushes for twenty 

 minutes when the whole herd became alarmed, 

 having, as I feared, sighted the boys, whom I 

 had particularly enjoined to keep out of sight. 

 The position became much worse when the 

 eland bunched themselves into a dense mass, 



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