BIG GAME 6i 



by sportsmen, it will, after being disturbed, turn down 

 wind, when for obvious reasons it would be foolish 

 to follow ; even then it can be sometimes circumvented 

 by taking a wide detour to get below the wind : and 

 here a native is absolutely necessary, as he alone 

 will know the probable direction which they have 

 gone in and where they are likely to stop. 



Practice and knowing what to look for are the only 

 things that teach the beginner to see game, it may 

 be lying down or standing up, head or tail on, feeding 

 or resting, probably half concealed by some tree 

 or shrub or rock or long grass ; its head end may 

 be visible or only its tail end. In forest the light 

 may be so bad that there is twilight everywhere, 

 or in more open country the alternate shadows and 

 bright sunlight break up their forms and make them 

 invisible : their horns look like branches ; their ears 

 like the thousand leaves around, and their bodies 

 the colour of the ground or trees or rocks. At every 

 step you imagine you see the beast you are after, 

 and when at last there is a sudden movement and 

 the quarry has gone, you find you had made sure 

 that it was nothing alive till it had moved, and then 

 it was too late. 



This is where the glass comes in, and with its aid 

 these illusions can be dispelled, and often the game 

 made out where the eye had failed to find it, and an 

 exciting stalk brought to a successful conclusion. 



Crawling. — Frequently the last stage of the stalk is 



