CHAPTER XXIII 



The Gimook or Waller gazelle — Where found — A giraffe-like antelope — 

 Extraordinary loigth of neck — Small herds — Difficult to approach — 

 Advantages of a long neck — Halt at Hai^es^a — March continued — 

 ArriTB at Arabsea — Our zareba at night — A lion prowling around — 

 We hear but cannot see him — The lion's call — Next morning search — 

 Marked down — Beating through the grace — ^My first lion — A splendid 

 specimen — Lions and tigers compared — Difference in skulk—Game 

 plentiful — ^Two more hoas sighted — Gallop in pursuit — A savage 

 charge — Chased for one hundred yaids — I shoot the lion — In ponait 

 of the other — Crouched in a patch of grass — A snap-shot — My third 

 lion ! — ^Raiding Somalis met with — A Uoneas and cube — I shoot the 

 mother — Escape of the cube — Man-eating lions common — A woman 

 carried off — ^Tracking up the man-eater — I fail to locate liim — Shoot 

 a cock ostrich — Bushmen wonderful trackers — A hunter killed by a 

 wild elephant — Tom limb from limb — Too light a rifle — Difference 

 between A'^iatic and African elephants — ^Latter snperior in size — A 

 heni of a hundred — Most dangerous of African game— Tenacity of life 

 extraordinary — Skull oorioosly ptoteoted — ^The temple shot preferable 

 — Not always socoes sfu l — A male and femide wounded — Cozioas 

 results of shots from 8-bore Paradox. 



I WAS also lucky enough, on this march, to secure some good 

 spn of the Gimook or Waller gazelle. This curious, 



gir;; antelope is found throughout East Africa. 



The colour is a rufus-fawn, with a broad dark band running 

 down the middle of the back. Height at the shoulder 

 about forty-two inches, and weight 116 lbs. 



Horns are ridged and curved forward at the tips, where 

 the ridges end. The females have no horns. The skvdl 

 is massive and extends far back behind the ears. The neck, 

 the distinguishing feature of this animal, is long, and eyes 

 Inrge like those of the giraffe. 



The Gimook feeds on bushes, and, Uke the Indian goat, 



:iy be seen browsing, standing on its hind legs to reach 



the more tender shoots. They are found in small herds 



in scattered bush and ravines. The average length of their 



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