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make an ingenious trap for antelope out of the 

 same material, and this they prefer using to 

 bullets or powder, which are hard to come by. 

 This consists of a ring three or four inches in 

 diameter, made of splinters of horn bound round 

 with goat-hair twine. Sticking out towards the 

 centre are a number of horn spikes, so arranged 

 as to allow an antelope's foot to go through in 

 one direction but not to be withdrawn. The snare 

 is covered with a sprinkling of sand, and set 

 attached to a heavy stone on one of the numer- 

 ous paths made by antelope. 



Though their colour matches their surroundings, 

 antelope, owing to their being so often on the 

 move, are not as a rule difficult to see ; but 

 when motionless, like other hill beasts, they 

 "turn into stones." And by the same token 

 stones are frequently mistaken for one's quarry ; 

 and, curiously enough, if you start with the idea 

 that a stone on a distant hill is an animal, 

 the more you stare at it the more it appears 

 to be ascending the hill. In illustration of this 

 I must record an anecdote, which by the way 

 is the story of a "record." It occurred a few- 

 mornings after the first antelope had been shot. 

 The lady of the party, whose vision, I may 

 remark, was second to no one's, had for a few 

 days previously been particularly successful in 



