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We stayed one more day at K arias, encouraged 

 so to do by my success on the first day. and on 

 this second day I was again in luck, though for the 

 time I did not know it. After a long patient stalk, 

 by utilising the only bit of slightly rising ground 

 between myself and the horizon. I got within two 

 hundred and fifty yards of three antelopes feeding. 

 Ctae of them, a splendid white-faced old buck, with 

 a beautiful head, stood at gaze, looking towards me. 

 and broadside on. I heard my bullet strike him 

 as plainly almost as if it had struck a rimzinc: bull's- 



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eye, and at that distance I expected to see him drop 

 in his tracks. For a moment he fell on his knees, 

 and then recovering, came straight towards my 

 place of ambush, passing me at a terrific pace not 

 more than thirty yards off. I fired the other barrel 

 at him. but though I aimed well in front. I saw the 

 bullet cut up the steppe in a line far behind him. 

 Had I had my horse with me I miiiht have had a 

 chance : but as it was. though I ran some distance 

 on foot to st<e if my prize would not drop after 

 going a few hundred yards, I had to give it up. 

 and the last I saw of the antelope that day was as 

 he disappeared from sight with half a dozen sheep- 

 dogs at his heels. He was found next day pulled 

 down and eaten by dogs or wolves : and luckily his 

 head, which my friend Lyall obtained for me. was 

 but little hurt. The 'express "bullet had caught him 

 full in the centre of the shoulder blade. >plirtinir ir 



