CHAPTER XVI 
ANTELOPES 
By F. J. JacKson 
ANTELOPE shooting is unattended with danger, and yet 
antelopes afford if anything better sport than any of the 
dangerous game-beasts found in Africa. Creatures such as 
rhinos, buffaloes, and elephants have not so many enemies 
as the antelopes, and can therefore afford to be far less 
watchful than these beasts, whose natural shyness and 
marvellously developed senses test the stalker’s skill to the 
very utmost. If, as it seems to me, sport should be measured 
not so much by the amount of danger incurred as by the 
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1 C. Harveyi. 2 G. Petersi. > N. montanus. * C. bohor. 
