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ON SAFARI 



fighting. 



and the 



tosfether 



position ; 



Laikipia. 



quished 



astern. 



Presently the bigger bull got an advantage, 



other fled. The fighting and the pursuit 



had taken us some miles from our original 



we were now close under the foothills of 



Here at last the champion halted, the van- 



half-a-mile beyond, we double that distance 



The victor had pulled up just beyond a little 



IMPALA. 



"Hardly had we left camp in the dawn than a lovely apparition showed up on 

 the sky-line ahead." (Got him in the neck: horns 24 J ins.) 



string of gazelles that were feeding across the plain. I 

 felt that if only those gazelles would stand I would get 

 my shot. They did stand, and, firing over their heads 

 at 300 yards, I realised the fierce joy of seeing that 

 noble oryx bull drop stone-dead on the plain. The 

 ball had struck the orifice of the ear, entering the brain 

 — not a shot to boast of, as the shoulder had been my 

 mark ; yet withal no more magnificent trophy had ever 

 fallen to my lot, nor a keener ambition been satisfied. 



