INDIAN ANTELOPES 



of them would have sufficed to at once kill an 

 antelope under ordinary circumstances. How that 

 animal, thus wounded by a hollow express '500 

 bore copper-tube bullet, could run a short way, pull 

 up again, and continue fighting like a demon, I 

 cannot understand. I can only surmise that the 

 fact of his extreme rage enabled him to support 

 a wound which would have floored him at once 

 under ordinary conditions. But this has been a 

 long digression, and I will now return to the 

 subject of how to bag antelope. 



It often happens, particularly in Mysore, that 

 these animals are found on ground broken by 

 ravines and nullahs, in some places clothed with 

 bushes, and under such circumstances very pretty 

 stalking can be enjoyed. A good pair of binoculars 

 (or a telescope) to be carried by one of the men, 

 and a pair of "Lilliput" binoculars, which can be 

 taken in the sportsman's own pocket, are very 

 necessary for use in antelope shooting. 



The sportsman may need an aid to vision after 

 he has left the men under cover (or in a nullah) 

 while he proceeds by himself to stalk the game, 

 and he will then find the " Lilliput " binoculars 

 extremely useful. 



In some places, the ground is so flat and bare, 

 and the antelope so wary, that in order to circum- 

 vent them it is necessary to use a covered bullock 

 cart. Antelope are quite accustomed to seeing 

 cattle and carts, so that, unless they have learnt 

 the trick, they will generally allow a cart to go 

 }uite close to them. I have only in two trips 



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