An African Shooting Trip 



bred manner, flies strong, and is difficult to 

 approach within shotgun distance. We also 

 met with two smaller varieties of bustards, 

 and these, together with wild guinea fowl and 

 doves, often supplied us with meat when large 

 game was scarce. 



It was not many days before we fell in with 

 various kinds of antelope, and soon had speci- 

 mens of about the smallest known variety, the 

 native dik-dik, or Salt's gazelle. These little 

 chaps, standing about sixteen inches at the 

 shoulder, delicately and perfectly shaped, are 

 found in almost all districts where the country 

 is gravelly and rolling. They jump up like 

 hares from beneath a bush, and make a diffi- 

 cult mark when running in the brush. The 

 horns of the male are about three inches 

 long, and are often partially obscured by a 

 brush of stiff hair which grows up from 

 the forehead. 



My first piece of real good luck was in get- 

 ting an oryx. This animal, about the size of 

 a mule, is certainly the most gamy, in looks 

 and actions, of all the antelope tribe in this 

 region. While A. D. S. and I were stalking 

 some aoul antelope, H. K., who was ahead, 

 drove two oryx within one hundred yards, 



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