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make use of a code of whistles similar to that 

 usually employed when summoning public 

 vehicles — ^.e., one blast for a yak, two for a 

 cariboo, three for an oryx, etc. Personally, 

 I regard this theory as fundamentally unsound, 

 having always found that the same note which 

 stops a wounded Paa (Nanotragus kirkii) in 

 East Africa will also check the stricken Maa 

 (Nanotraga chapelia) of West Africa. In this 

 connection a few remarks upon the proper 

 treatment of wounded or moribund animals 

 may be not altogether out of place. 



Wounded animals are notoriously dangerous 

 and untrustworthy, and it is often far safer to 

 miss a lion altogether than to plant an explosive 

 bullet in the very tip of its tail. Accidents will 

 happen, however, in the best-regulated expe- 

 ditions, and every hunter should know what 



steps to take — besides the " d long ones " 



of the humorist — in order to avoid the painful 

 consequences of a hand-to-hand encounter with 

 a punctured hyena. 



Lions and tigers who have been painfully 

 peppered in non- vital places will often turn 

 upon the sportsman and attempt to tear him 

 limb from limb, and the only certain cure for 

 conduct of this kind is a bullet through the brain. 

 A crippled crocodile will pursue its human 

 enemy wdth unabated zeal across open country, 



