STALKING IN THE NYIKA 



once more the open steppe. After an hour or so 

 my native companions see the bull about forty - five 

 hundred feet ahead of us still galloping on three legs. 

 We come to a spot where the animal apparently 

 has made a brief stop, for the ground is marked with 

 blood and two splinters of bone are found. Sueda- 

 bushes now afford us good cover. I leave my men be- 

 hind, succeed in approaching the bull within shooting 

 distance, and kill him. My men come up and skin the 

 gnu. An Arabian kite, which had been following us 

 for a long time in anticipation of a square meal, sees its 

 expectation realized and alights on the dead bull. Other 



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