CHAPTER XXIV. 



A night Storm Singular effect on the Fish Antelope shooting 

 Shooting from horseback In ambush A pretty Stalk 

 Conclusion. 



ONE tent was struck and the baggage dispatched 

 as usual that evening. But the weather looked 

 threatening, and the other the bechoba was re- 

 tained in case of the visit of one of those wild fitful 

 hot-weather storms such as I have before described. 



Nor was this precaution taken in vain. About 

 midnight a servant came running up to awake the 

 gentlemen, who were as usual sleeping in the open 

 air, and inform them that a storm was coming up, 

 and on the point of breaking upon them. Hawkes 

 was the first aroused. As the moon had gone down 

 he could not see much, but he heard enough to be 

 fully alive to the fact that the hurricane was indeed 

 close at hand. Securing his bed, he tried to get it 

 into the tent, but before he could do so, the blast 

 had caught him, and knocked him right over on to 

 the flat of his back with his bed on the top of him. 

 A chair and a table were blown quite out of the 



