Northern Nigeria 



On this day's shooting I saw a fine roan bull, 

 but was too late, he dashed off into the bush as 

 I raised my rifle. I also missed two duikers. I 

 never did shoot well in Nigeria, it was such quick 

 work in the heavy bush. 



Abadie saw three herds of roan, and shot one 

 grand, full-grown beast, but carrying a poor 

 head. The country round here we were near 

 Kiama was one maze of tracks, elephant, lion, 

 hartebeest, roan and water-buck being the most 

 noticeable, though there were many more that I 

 didn't know; but everything was blotted out by 

 the continuous bush. Towards the end of June, 

 Abadie and I got another two days to ourselves 

 in the bush. As far as I was concerned this was, 

 unfortunately, only a repetition of my former 

 experience, though I missed one good opportunity. 

 I was making my way through the usual tangle of 

 coppice when I came on a roan ; I saw for a 

 moment a great head and neck, with long curving 

 horns, and a bristling mane, within twenty yards. 

 Then, crash ! He was gone for ever. Abadie 

 killed an old roan bull with only one horn, gnarled 

 and blunted with age, but yet 21| inches in length, 

 and 9| inches round the base. He also bagged a 

 cobus kob and a water-buck. 



A day or two later, one of the officers of our 

 expedition, while on the march with troops, shot 

 a roan cow with a 25^-inch head, a male and a 



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