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yards from where I had fired, and we went to him, 

 skinned him, and took off his head. The horns were 

 of fair length, 1 2 J inches. The bullet had entered the 

 middle of his off-thigh, and gone out making a large hole 

 in front of his near hind-leg. 



This being over, we determined to follow the pair 

 that had gone away, but before doing so, waited till they 

 had gone up a low hill and over the crest. Following 

 as quick as we could, we saw them in the hollow beyond, 

 but out of range. Unfortunately they also saw us, and 

 began moving slowly off, keeping carefully along ground 

 on which there was not a particle of cover. So I set 

 one of the pony-men to watch them, and went back into 

 a hollow to have breakfast. When this was finished we 

 started after the pair again, but it would be wearisome 

 to give details of our long stern chase. Suffice it to say, 

 that though we overtook them several times, we never 

 got within effective range, as the pair took care to keep 

 only in open ground, and the tops of the hills were so 

 flat that we always found they were out of range when 

 we got to the crest, no matter how fast we followed. 

 We gave up about 6 p.m., and went back pretty well 

 frozen by the awful wind. 



I did not remember what other men had experienced 

 when pursuing goa, but it struck me from what I saw of 

 Giato's tactics, that unless the animals voluntarily left the 

 grazing ground on the plain, and went into places where 

 they could be stalked, nothing could be done. It was 

 abundantly manifest from these two days' experience, that 

 they were absolutely safe on the plain, as they would let 

 nothing approach nearer than 400 yards. Also that it 



