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when lying wounded, with caution, as on one occasion my gun- 
bearer, on going up to cut the throat of an oryx, received a 
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Oryx collotis and Bubalis Cokei 
severe blow on the thigh 
from the side of one of the 
wounded beast’s horns. The 
blow might have been very i 
serious had the oryx caught : 
him with the point of his 
horns instead of with the flat. 
One of my most memor- 
able stalks was up to a herd 
of some twenty-five of these 
grand beasts near the Useri 
river, in May 1887. The country was for the most part undulat- 
