T 7 2 SPORT AND TRAVEL 



coyotes (Canis latrans], two of which stood and 

 looked at me within a hundred yards, but I was afraid 

 to fire at them for fear of disturbing the antelopes. 

 Leaving my horse in a little hollow, I crept to the 

 ridge of a low hill, and again espied the white rumps 

 and buff-coloured hides of the wary game 1 was pursu- 

 ing. After carefully studying the intervening ground, 

 I commenced my stalk and at length got to within 

 two hundred and fifty yards of the antelopes. They 

 were seven in number, a big buck and six does and 

 fawns. They were now all lying down, but as I watched 

 they got up one after another, and fed slowly over a 

 little rise in the ground, and I then saw that I could 

 get nearer to them by crawling a short distance back- 

 wards, and getting into a little gully. I should prob- 

 ably have succeeded in creeping to within easy shot of 

 them, had not a coyote run out in front of me, right 

 on to the antelopes, which must have taken fright and 

 gone off at once, as when I reached the top of the rise 

 from which I had hoped to get a shot, they had disap- 

 peared, nor could I see them anywhere. 



I then went back and got my horse, and after riding 

 about for some time at last sighted the antelopes on 

 the top of a high terrace. On seeing me they at once 

 started to come down towards the lower ground, and by 

 galloping hard I was able to get within two hundred 

 yards of them as they raced by. The big buck came 

 last, and I missed him with my first shot, but hit him 

 with the next when he was about three hundred yards 



