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and passed out at back of it ; lie ran about fifty 

 yards, stood, took full sight 200, went over, gere- 

 nouk moved not (thanks to smokeless powder he 

 did not know where I was), fired again, fine sight, 

 just cut along bottom of stomach, skin wound 

 only, gerenouk vanished. Plenty of blood. He 

 only went about 300 yards and lay down, could 

 not get up when I got near, gave him a finisher 

 through both shoulders. The Tweedie bullet and 

 rifleite makes the most fearful wounds. The 

 303 is a far more powerful weapon than I be- 

 lieved. Gerenouk' s head 14 in. Sultan Nur, the 

 boss of this part came to see me, drank tea, &c, 

 and told me that I ought to take more camels 

 for water across the Haud. Shall hire two from 

 here. Saw lots of gerenouk to-day, they are 

 the hardest antelope to get near, I know. Their 

 enormous long necks enable them to see over 

 bushes well. They run through the bush with 

 the head down and long neck straight out ; look 

 very comic moving. They are a little bigger 

 than black buck, but much longer in leg and 

 neck. If you crossed a very small camel and a 

 chinkard and reared the offspring on gin to keep 

 it small, you might grow a gerenouk. 



