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worse ; for one brother, Reginald S. 0. Ingle, joining 

 the Im^ierial Light Horse, was shot dead before Vry- 

 heid. May 20, 1900 ; while J. C. Ingle was seized and 

 held prisoner in Lydenburg gaol for eight weary months. 

 Escaping thence he did good service as Intelligence 

 Officer with Bethune's Light Horse. But by way of 

 reprisal, the Boers burnt down his house and store. 



MY FIRST VIEW OF A SABLE BULL. ".JUMPED UP "WITH A SXOP.T. " 



with all it contained — including my forty - four 

 trophies ! 



Koodoo. — Strepsiceros kudu. 



We did not try for this, though Bariugo is a well- 

 known locality. Its haunts there are among specially 

 stony mountains — piles of rugged boulders, hidden 

 amidst wiry grass and ornamented with thorny creepers, 

 the hardest of " going." The most deadly enemy of 

 the koodoo in that rcQ-ion is the liuntinsf-doo;, which 

 destroys more than all the licensed sportsmen put 

 together. 



My own heads are from Mashonaland and the 

 Transvaal. 



