CHAPTER XVI 



ANTELOPES 

 BY F. J. JACKSON 



ANTELOPE shooting is unattended with danger, and yet 

 antelopes afford if anything better sport than ' any of the 

 dangerous game-beasts found in Africa. Creatures such as 

 rhinos, buffaloes, and elephants have not so many enemies 

 as the antelopes, and can therefore afford to be far less 

 watchful than these beasts, whose natural shyness and 

 marvellously developed senses test the stalker's skill to the 

 very utmost. If, as it seems to me, sport should be measured 

 not so much by the amount of danger incurred as by the 



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