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did not fire. Elmi asserted positively that this was an 

 oryx ; but now (after seeing both species) I am satisfied 

 that it was a young eland. 



A fortnight's hunting had yielded thirty-four 

 selected specimens, comprising eleven difterent species 

 of big game. But hitherto the 

 intense wildness of our most 

 coveted object, the Neumann's 

 hartebeest, had defied our utmost 

 cftorts. Stalking on the open 

 prairie frequented by these ante- 

 lopes had proved impossible. A 

 carefully-organised "drive" had 

 failed — I will not say through 

 the stupidity of the drivers, but 

 simply because savages could not 

 comprehend the scope of the 

 operation. On our last day but 

 one we adopted a modified scheme 

 of simply "moving" a herd, and 

 this so far succeeded that we each 

 secured a specimen at extreme 

 ranges. Both, unluckily, proved 

 to be females, mine being a fine 

 adult, carrying a head of 15f ins., 

 and my brother's a smaller cow. 

 The latter, having only a broken 

 shoulder, led us a long chase, and 

 eventually, after receiving two 

 more bullets (one in the head), 

 entered a patch of thick wood. 



Happening to be the nearest, 

 I followed in and finished her 



with the Paradox ; but the shot was instantly echoed 

 by a succession of such roars as caused me to 

 regain the open with quite unseemly haste— so, at 



least, it appeared to W , who was some distance 



away. On reconnoitring from a safer point, we found 

 that the cause of alarm was a herd of hippopotami. 



HUNTING-KNIFE SHEATHED 



IN SKIN FROM AN IMPALA's 



PASTERN, 



