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BIG GAME SHOOTING 



when lying wounded, with caution, as on one occasion my gun - 

 bearer, on going up to cut the throat of an oryx, received a 



Oryx collotis and Bubalis Cokei 



severe blow on the thigh 

 from the side of one of the 

 wounded beast's horns. The 

 blow might have been very 

 serious had the oryx caught 

 him with the point of his 

 horns instead of with the flat. 

 One of my most memor- 

 able stalks was up to a herd 

 of some twenty-five of these 

 grand beasts near the Useri 

 river, in May 1887. The country was for the most part undulat- 



