100 WILD MEN AND WILD BEASTS. 



cooling beverages of sorts, and started off after breakfast. 

 A mile or two from camp we came on a small herd of chinkara, 

 and conspicuous among them was a fine buck. They were 

 standing about, in a partially cultivated piece of ground, crop- 

 ping the young shoots of bair-bushes. Dropping off our horses, 

 we walked on the far side of the shooting-cart, which was 

 slowly driven past the deer. Seeing us, they moved off for a 

 short distance, and stood scattered over the side of a slight 

 rise. The buck gave a fair chance, and the Collector dropped 

 him neatly with a shot through the shoulders. 



Placing him in the cart we again mounted and moved on, 

 and soon came on a herd of nylghae. One of my attendants 

 had asked me to procure for him the skin of an old bull, as he 

 required it to make a shield. Observing a very fine blue fellow 

 standing out by himself, at some distance from the rest, we 

 decided that he was a proper beast for the purpose. On this 

 occasion, it was my turn to shoot, and working up to within a 

 hundred yards, I drew the bead on his shoulder. As I pressed 

 the trigger the bull wheeled round, and the ball struck him 

 too far back. He was, however, badly wounded, and went off 

 slowly. Eunning back, the Collector mounted his horse, and 

 gave chase. As he closed on the bull he delivered his spear 

 behind the shoulder, and narrowly escaped a kick, which would 

 probably have broken his leg had it taken effect. The spear- 

 thrust proved deadly, and the beast fell over, after going a short 

 distance. As we did not fancy taking him about with us all 

 day, we dragged him to some thick bushes, where the vultures 

 could not see him, and covering him up with boughs, we left 

 him till we returned in the evening. 



Farther on, we came on a herd of Saiseen antelope, 

 but my companion missed a tolerably good buck, and 

 knocked over a fat doe, which was grazing just beyond 



