74 Three Months' Leave in Somali Land. 



him one more bullet to settle the business and lie 

 fell nearly dead. The 500 with Eley bullet is 

 not good enough for a powerful beast like an oryx. 

 Horns thirty-two inches. Went out in afternoon, 

 saw several Clarke's gazelles, but only as they 

 ran through jungle. Do not know if a buck was 

 among them. Saw doe of lesser koodoo. Saw 

 three oryx, all looked good heads (with glasses) ; 

 got up to 100 to 120 yards, fired at biggest look- 

 ing beast. I could only see their heads and top 

 of their backs over the grass as I stood. First 

 shot evidently hit, and apparently oryx regularly 

 staggered by it, the rest did not move at the shot. 

 Fired at the next best, and he blundered around 

 as if he was dying ; the remaining one went off 

 unharmed. Before I had loaded again the second 

 onjx had vanished in the grass, but the first I 

 fired at still stood. I fired at him again and 

 heard the bullet singing across country, low, I 

 think ; he went off and I missed him again, left 

 barrel; ran after him with 10-bore and fired 

 another shot at him in thick bush, missed again. 

 Followed him till about 4.30 (two hours) very little 

 blood, only a drop or two in every hundred yards. 

 G-ot a shot at him at about 150 yards at 4.30 



