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was well adapted. About 300 yards from the foot of the earth 
boil there was a deep, dry watercourse, and it was through the 
passage between the two that I decided to drive everything if 
possible. About half-way across there were several thorn trees 
and a few low ant-heaps which commanded the whole of the 
passage. 
After directing the beaters to work round in a circuit, to 
get well to windward of the game, and telling off two other 
men to act as ‘stops’ on the other side of the ‘ boil,’ I took up 
my position on one of the ant-heaps, and lay flat on the sloping 
side, sufficiently near the top to enable me to look over it, 
Ramazan, my gun- bearer, lay at the foot of it. The first beasts 
to appear were the five giraffes, which had seen the beaters 
long before any of the other game could do so, and came 
striding along in their stately fashion, stopping every now and 
again to have a look round. The old bull was an enormous 
beast, and one of the darkest in colour I have ever seen. When 
just level with me, and about eighty yards off, as there was still no 
other game in sight, I could not resist the temptation of startling 
them, as they seemed to be taking things so easily, and there- 
fore jumped up and showed myself, shouting as I did so, 
‘Hi ! Yambo !’ (a Swahili salutation), after which they went off 
at a gallop, with their tails screwed up, their long necks 
swaying backwards and forwards at each stride, and were soon 
lost to view in a cloud of black dust. Shortly after this little 
interlude I saw a dense cloud of dust rising in the distance to 
windward of me, heard a low rumbling noise from the same 
direction, and knew at once that the beaters had begun their 
work. Several zebras which stood out well against the dark 
background came cantering along, together with a few harte- 
beests, but I soon lost sight of these, as they shortly afterwards 
pulled up, and the clouds of dust drifting before the wind 
obscured them from my view. I began to fear I should be 
unable to see anything, but as the game approached, I could 
distinguish several zebras and hartebeests, and could see them 
fairly well when about 100 yards off, some of them even walking 
