a second to face a jump nine feet high at the top of a 

 sharp rise, and that all seven did it in follow-my- 

 leader order with the most perfect ease and grace. 



Every hunter has seen a whole troop, old and young, 

 following the example of the leader, clear a road or 

 donga twenty feet wide, apparently in an effortless 

 stride. It is a fine sight, and the steady stream of 

 buck makes an arch of red and white bodies over the 

 road looking like the curve of a great wave. You 

 stand and watch in speechless admiration ; and the 

 first gasp at a glorious leap is followed by steady 

 silent wonder at the regularity of the numbers. Then 

 suddenly you see one animal for no apparent reason : 

 it may be fright or it may be frolic take off away 

 back behind the others, shoot up, and sail high above 

 the arch of all the rest, and with head erect and feet 

 comfortably gathered, land far beyond them the 

 difference between ease and effort, and oh ! the perfect 

 grace of both ! Something is wrung from you 

 a word, a gasp and you stand breathless with wonder 

 and admiration until the last one is gone. You have 

 forgotten to shoot ; but they have left you something 

 better than a trophy, something which time will 

 only glorify a picture that in daylight or in dark 

 will fill your mind whenever you hear the name 

 Impala. 



Something of this I carried away from my first 

 experience among them. There were a few minutes 

 of complete bewilderment, a scene of the wildest 

 confusion, and flashes of incident that go to make 

 a great picture which it is impossible to forget. But 



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