26 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA chap. 



in ten years' shooting this was only the second I 

 bagged. Soon after, I saw a lesser kudu standing 

 in a little clearing in the jungle, with his side towards 

 us ; a quick shot, and he rolled over dead in his tracks. 

 His head proved a fair one, the horns measuring over 

 29 inches. Leaving the men to skin and cut up the 

 meat, we went on. As we passed round a tree, I saw 

 a kudu facing us, but AH did not stop quickly enough, 

 and we had a long follow, until at last Ali made out his 

 horns above a bush, when I judged the position of his 

 body and fired, but without success. I then sat down, 

 while Ali went back for the mule and men. When he 

 rejoined me, he reported that he had just seen another 

 kudu. We at once went back and took up the tracks, 

 and, after jumping the animal once, I got a long shot, 

 but hit a little too far behind the shoulder. A long 

 chase he gave before we found him, when a shot, as 

 he struggled to get up, rolled him over. He turned 

 the scale at 283 lbs. and had rather a better head than 

 the first. After a lazy time in the shade, we started 

 back to camp, coming on a small herd of gerenuk on 

 the way. They were walking rapidly from us, the 

 buck leading. Quickly I got the telescope-sight to 

 bear on him, and, waiting till I had a clear view of his 

 hind-quarters, fired at 150 yards, the bullet raking him 

 from end to end and dropping him stone-dead. Before 

 we reached camp, I killed a giiley, the Somali name for 

 a beautifully black-and-silver marked jackal, which was 

 sniffing about on the track of the mule that had carried 

 in our meat. All the luck that day had been mine ; 

 H. and W. had nothing to show ; B., who had shot a 



