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moments of triumph, to have to suflfer four hours of 

 blazing noontide heat beneath a perpendicular sun and 

 not so much as the shade of a bulrush ! 



Towards 4 p.m. we started afresh, and presently fell 

 in with a herd of ten, two big bulls, one of these a 

 specially grand beast. But every effort to secure him 

 failed. Always first to go, first to stop, yet he ever kept 

 the furthest away. So riveted had my attention been 

 upon the leader, with no eye for his companions during 



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Neumann's hartebeests. 



a two-hour chase, that it was only w^hen Elmi pointed 

 out that the second-best bull was within reasonable 

 range that I realised there was another good head 

 among them at all. At 250 yards full broadside the 

 bullet took him one foot behind the heart ; half-an-hour 

 later I got in a second, one foot above that organ, just 

 missing the spine. These details are given as further 

 illustrating the vitality of the African antelopes. AVith 

 these two terrible wounds (which we could clearly 

 discern with the glass) this hartebeest kept ahead of 

 us for another long hour's hard going, and only 



