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the other loose in my hand, and in this manner I would 

 mount my horse, and, keeping the dog on the right hand, 

 would start after the wounded buck at a hand gallop. The 

 old dog knew his work, and as soon as I was convinced that 

 he saw which deer he was to follow, I slipped the cord and 

 away he would go. 



The Saiseen antelope, or black buck, is, to use an Irishism, 

 occasionally found pure white. 



I have seen five or six specimens, but they were all in the 

 country to the soutn-west of Ahmedabad, and may consequently 

 have been related to each other. These antelope are regular 

 albinos, having white horns and hoofs, and red eyes. They 

 can be distinguished at great distances, owing to the exceed- 

 ing purity of their white coats, and, being seldom met with, 

 they are much sought after by sportsmen. My friend Bowles 

 shot one of these on the north-east frontier of Kattyawar. He 

 was a very fine buck, having horns twenty-six inches in length. 

 I had often seen one near Meytal, but he had been frequently 

 fired at often when he could only have been bagged by a 

 fluke and he had in consequence become very cunning, 

 lying out during the day in some open salt plain, and only 

 coming into the cultivated parts at nightfall. Many 

 stratagems were employed, but to no purpose. Sometimes 

 we stalked him with the shooting-cart, sometimes we tried to 

 drive him, occasionally we tried to approach him with the 

 coloured dress of one of the native women over our shooting 

 clothes, but the buck was too much for us, and we never 

 brought him to bag. I fell in with another of these albinos 

 at Kote, a village some thirty miles south of Ahmedabad. It 

 was a fawn, in company with one or two skittish does, and 

 they were very shy. I worked after it one morning for many 

 hours, but was unable to get within range. 



