. _ HINTS ON EAST AFRICAN STALKING, ETC. 191 
_ four beasts suddenly raise their heads and stare hard up wind, 
_ evidently on the alert. At first I could not see anything to 
alarm them, and felt quite sure that they had not got a taint of 
_ mywind. On getting into a sitting position behind the bush, 
I saw a dark object in the grass dead to windward of the elands, 
and about the same distance from them as I was. My first 
2 - idea was that it was a man, and I concluded that the fellow 
must be an idiot to attempt to stalk down wind, when I 
: suddenly got a better view, and with the aid of my binoculars 
_ made out a lion and lioness, and saw that they were actually 
on the same business as myself. Wishing tosee the result, I sat 
still and watched them, and could just manage to follow their 
movements, though I could only distinguish a small piece of 
the dark mane of the lion above the grass as he crawled slowly 
_ along. When the lions came toa tuft of rather longer grass they 
_ both raised their heads for a second, but the elands apparently 
_ took no notice of them, as they still stood perfectly motionless. 
_ As the lions crept on very slowly they came to another tuft of 
slightly taller grass, and the lion again raised his head, but this 
time he was seen by the elands, which all turned round and 
trotted off straight down wind. The lions then stood up, and 
_ after watching the elands a short time lay down in the grass ; 
__ but before I could crawl up to them and get a shot, they went 
off for the bush on the other side of the plain. The elands 
were then thoroughly on the alert and in a bad position for a 
further stalk, and although I believe I could have got up to within 
a couple of hundred yards of them, rather than risk a long shot, 
and perhaps only frighten them away from the locality alto- 
“gether, I left them in peace for the fourthtime. Returning on 
the fifth morning very early, while skirting along outside 
edge of the bush, keeping a sharp look-out, I found them 
a grand position for a stalk, as they were not more than 400 
yards from the edge of the bush on my side of the plain. The 
bull was lying down, one cow stood close by him, evidently on 
look-out, whilst the other two were quietly feeding. Enter- 
g the bush, I skirted along inside the edge until I was just 
