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would leave their mutual disputes and coine 

 forward by little runs, shaking their horns and 

 trying to look very ferocious, with great stamp- 

 ing of feet showing off before the ladies. 

 Closer and closer they would come till suddenly 

 it was as though they said, " Oh, good Heavens ! 

 it really does look dangerous, though," and, turning 

 round, would scamper off, hustling the does and 

 leaving them to look after themselves, till they 

 had got through the herd, when they would stop, 

 turn, and begin showing off again what fine fellows 

 they really were in an emergency. The finest 

 bucks would put their noses in the air, and, laying 

 their horns right back, walk round and round a 

 select circle of admiring does till an amorous 

 young buck would come too close, when down 

 would go the head, and in another moment the 

 youngster would be scouring the plain with the 

 lord of the harem in hot pursuit. 



Late in the morning I saw a very fine oryx ; 

 there were many about among the aoul, but this 

 one was such a whacker that I couldn't refrain 

 from having a go at him. The aoul round him 

 kept on giving him the alarm, and though he 

 never once, to the best of my belief, saw me, three 

 stalks failed. During the fourth I was nearly 

 within range, when again an aoul spoilt my chance. 

 This time the oryx was thoroughly alarmed, and 

 vanished at his best pace in a cloud of dust. The 



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