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of hunters being charged by roan and sable antelopes, 

 and of the redoubtable and vicious fighting character 

 of the bushbuck, which, so says one account, will 

 charge a man without hesitation. In all my hunting 

 career, and I have shot dozens of the three last- 



MY TWO TRACKERS. SIMBA (ON LEFT), TUMBO (ON RIGHT). 



mentioned game, on no occasion have I ever been 

 charged by any of them. 



Almost any wounded animal, when you approach 

 him, will instinctively endeavour to defend himself, 

 and the statement would apply to the ordinary billy- 

 goat at home ; but to class any of these antelopes as 

 dangerous is, in my opinion, purely and simply 



