284 BIG GAME SHOOTING 
happens to be in the ascendent or otherwise. Provided the 
sportsman keeps up wind and walks quietly, and is always 
thoroughly on the alert and prepared for a snap shot, a good 
day’s work may be done ; but if he does not exercise these pre- 
cautions, although he may come across any amount of fresh 
spoor, and may now and again catch sight of an antelope, he 
may go out day after day only to be disappointed, and will 
possibly blame everything and everybody but himself. Ante- 
lopes when in thick bush have often great difficulty in making 
out the direction whence a shot is fired, and I know of many 
instances when out shooting for the ‘pot,’ when, shortly after 
having fired at partridges or guinea-fowl, I have suddenly 
come across an antelope, standing intently listening, evidently 
on the gui vive, but apparently unable to make out from 
where my last shot was fired. Remembering this, the sports- 
man should never throw away a chance of shooting an antelope 
not already added to the bag through fancying that a shot 
or two will lessen his chance of procuring a particular and 
perhaps rarer species which he may be in quest of at the time. 
If the sportsman should come across the spoor of an ante- 
lope he is particularly anxious to get, and sees that the beast 
has been disturbed by his last shot, he should wait a quarter of 
an hour or so before following it, to allow it to settle down and 
forget its fear ; and as antelopes rarely go far away, he will have 
a very good chance of eventually getting a shot. For this sort 
of shooting one of Messrs. Holland & Holland’s Paradox 
guns will be found invaluable, as one barrel can be loaded with 
a bullet and the other with a charge of shot, when the sports- 
man is prepared for anything from a kudu or waterbuck to a 
duyker or ‘paa’ (4. Kirkit). 
Zebras, wart-hogs, &c. may be stalked in the same manner 
as antelopes. 
The following is a complete list of the antelopes at present 
known to exist in British East Africa :— 
Antelopes, from the sportsman’s point of view, can be divided 
into two kinds: those which frequent the open plains, and those 
