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however, struck so precisely correct on shoulder that even 

 through the telescope-sight I witnessed its single con- 

 vulsive bound in air, and then the dead gazelle-lying, belly 

 uppermost, on the rocks. In my experience of sighting 

 through a telescope, that is a somewhat unusual incident. 



Very nearly on this occasion did I bring off the right- 

 and-left ; for, the survivors pausing a further hundred 

 yards ahead, a second bullet overshot by but the merest 

 hair's-breadth. 



Despite the two shots, the troop of ariel still stood 



ARAB SNARE FOR CATCHING GAZELLES. 



unalarmed, broad on our left, and beyond an intervening 

 ravine. As we advanced towards the dead gazelle thus 

 opening out the ravine on left we at once descried what 

 peared to be an ariel lying dead in its depths. While 

 examining this with binoculars, the animal began to 

 struggle, and we then realised that it was caught in a 

 snare which effectually tied up both its hind legs in a 

 bunch. As often as it regained its feet, the poor beast 

 promptly fell full broadside on the ground and, soon 

 becoming exhausted by its struggles, lay prostrate. It 

 proved to be a doe, and so badly injured that we were 

 obliged to kill it. 



It had now become obvious that it was to this 

 ensnared ariel-doe we owed our success with "Isabella." 



