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hit and a loud " Baa " or a flutter of wings proclaims 

 that his quarry has " got it." 



On these occasions the game will creep silently 

 up and stand within a few feet, listening intently 

 behind, and taking no heed of the squatting enemy 

 in front till the arrow strikes it or some unfortunate 

 sudden movement attracts its attention. A man 

 with a gun is not usually liked, for a shot will 

 scare everything within hearing, where the arrow has 

 hardly raised fear in the beast that may have just 

 been missed. 



The author has frequently joined these drives in 

 Portuguese Africa, where forty or sixty natives have 

 taken part in them and every man has bagged at least 

 one head of game. Bushbuck and larger antelope 

 are shot at and secured by the natives with bows 

 and arrows, though doubtless many escape, and an 

 interesting case of how an animal can recover and 

 live, though wounded, came before the notice of the 

 author. 



He was hunting, accompanied by two natives, in the 

 foot-hills of a well-known range of mountains, and on 

 hearing wild dogs chasing some animal, made away 

 across in that direction and came up to them just as 

 they had killed, but owing to the long grass they were 

 not seen. On reaching the spot where the kill had 

 taken place the remains of a bushbuck ram were found, 

 and the boys naturally hunted round to see if any meat 

 had been left which might be worth their while to 



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