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the camp-fires, wliat time lions were Ijeginning to 

 call. 



Next morning I secured my first pair of Grant's 

 gazelle, the buck by a shot in base of neck at over 250 

 yards. He formed one of a group of thirty or forty 





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animals widely scattered among sparse bush, but his 

 was the only good head. He carried massive annulated 

 horns of 23 ins., by seven in basal circumference, and*u^ith 

 the wide sj^an of 1 6 ins. between tips. The doe I got by 

 a little impromptu drive, killing her with a Paradox ball 

 as she flew past at eighty yards — a lovely creature with 

 horns of 15f ins. My brother also brought in a Grant 

 buck, the horns being identical in length with mine, but 

 narrower, the span being only 11 ins. Next day I got 

 a good impala ram after a nerve-trying stalk through 

 open rush-clad straths. These were, however, traversed 



