ANTELOPE SHOOTING. 3 



striking him, but they laughed at me and joked me about 

 broken legs, hitting a stone, and other such chaff; and as the 

 antelope "chulled" so well, I fully concluded that I had made 

 a miss. I managed to get within shot of him again ; but I 

 had my doubts as to the result as I thought I saw the ball 

 strike the ground ; however, he soon laid down, and then 

 I knew he must have got it rather hot. When within a 

 hundred yards or so he got up, and I then saw some blood on 

 one of his forelegs. I had with me two capital dogs, Noble 

 and Judy, crosses between the arab and the english grey- 

 hound with just enough of the poligar blood to give them 

 courage, so I slipped them and away they went. The pace 

 soon began to tell on the buck, and Noble seized him by the 

 haunch, the antelope managed to throw him off, but the dog 

 again got up to him and laid hold of his neck and pulled him 

 over. I found that I had struck him with both my shots, the 

 second one having gone through his lungs. I was at least 

 two hundred and fifty yards away when I fired the first shot. 

 The run with the dogs, before they pulled the buck down, 

 was fully three quarters of a mile, so this time I came home 

 koosh. I went on persevering, taking more pains and not 

 firing till within a proper distance, and soon became a better 

 and steadier shot, and the good-humoured chaff ceased. 



As I have previously stated, these animals were at times 

 so wild that it was often almost impossible to get within rifle 

 shot. I soon found that the best mode of proceeding was by 

 stalking them from behind my pony, making the syce move 

 slowly on ; even then it was no easy work and often required 

 a long trudge, sometimes of many miles, before I could get 

 within shot ; I always made my syce or horse-keeper carry a 

 hog-spear, and when I was lucky enough to cripple a black 



