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none of them showed the slightest signs of fear until after I 
had gone by them, when the wind exposed the deception. 
_ The next day I approached a large herd of some thirty-five 
_ G. Grantii, got within 40 yards, and killed the best buck, a 
magnificent beast, in spite of three or four does which stood 
_ within 25 yards of me. After the shot, instead of reveal- 
_ ing myself, I picked up the neck of the ostrich, which I 
had been obliged to drop in order to take the shot, and rushed 
after the retreating herd. When they stopped after going about 
_ 600 yards, the feigned alarm of the ostrich was apparently 
so real that they allowed me to run straight up to within 60 
yards of them. However, I was so pumped from the run, 
_ and tired by the first long walk up to the herd in a cramped 
and stooping position, trying to assimilate my height to that of 
an ostrich’s body, that I was very unsteady, and a shot at the 
next best buck missed him clean, and away went the herd. 
____ Ihave only twice tried sitting over a water-hole or other 
a drinking place, a method perhaps less sporting than any other, 
_ although a very favourite way of killing game in South Africa in 
' former days ; and my attempts at this form of sport met with 
such poor success that I know little or nothing about it. There 
can be no doubt but that the Kilimanjaro district and such- 
_ like places are not favourable to this form of shooting, as there 
is so much water about, that game cannot be relied upon to 
drink at the same place two nights running. To be successful, 
water should be scarce, and there should certainly not be a 
ning stream, with its numerous and well-used drinking- 
$s, within at least eight or ten miles of the place to 
watched. Although my two attempts were failures, this 
in would no doubt be well worth trying, more especially 
n there were lions about. Other game, such as rhinoceroses, 
joes, and various antelopes, if not to be found on their 
ng grounds in the open at daylight, can be tracked into 
bush, &c. The spoor of a lion, however, excepting in soft 
