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As I did not want to molest it I merely walked past, 

 and soon found myself on the top of a rise over- 

 looking a beautiful valley, interspersed here and 

 there with clusters of trees. A little to my right, 

 and some 400 yards away, I observed through my 

 glasses a very fine Jackson's hartebeeste, which I 



" A VERY FINE JACKSON'S HARTEBEESTE." 



made up my mind to secure. There were a number 

 of ant-heaps dotted profusely over the valley, and 

 I saw that I could keep under cover by stalking 

 carefully from one to another. At last I got up 

 to within 50 yards without being observed, and 

 kneeling behind a convenient hillock I covered the 



