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expect good work from them, make them look out their 

 best man for you, keep them to it when they think they 

 are beaten, and you will have always an interesting and 

 sometimes, as you deserve, a successful time. 



Even if your gunboy can track, as mine can, yo'u need 

 a man at your hand whose eyes are not on the ground but 

 above it, and in the surrounding grass or bush. See a lot 

 of men unaccustomed to African hunting, and probably 

 they all of them will have their eyes on the ground at the 

 same time. The first thing you know there is a crash or 

 a growl and the beast is away. Insist, and keep on insisting, 

 that the man who carries your rifle, look not on the ground, 

 but ahead of him and around. 



Rhino, in spite of their great weight, are difficult to 

 track once they are travelling on the inconceivably hard, 

 sunbaked ground. They seem most aimless of all beasts, 

 there is no purpose in their wanderings. They will move 

 quite rapidly, too, in all directions. No one can predict 

 safely their course. 



Lions, generally move in a large curve or half-circle. 

 It pays, therefore, to follow them and follow them for hours. 

 One track is apt to lead you at last to quite a family con- 

 clave. 



Impala, spring off on a seemingly steady course, but 

 never keep it. No wounded beast is more artful than this 

 beautiful antelope. 



Bush buck, crouch and hide, like a fox. Water buck, 

 will cunningly find a patch of thorn, so exactly correspond- 

 ing with their own coats, that nothing but the closest hunting 

 will find the wounded or dead game. 



Oryx, generally go pretty straight, and the sharp hoof 

 beneath the heavy body, make them perhaps easiest of all 

 to follow. 



Always see your head skins, if you want them, taken 

 off yourself. See them packed with grass or green twigs, 



