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so generally distributed an animal, it is a great stand-by to the traveller 

 for supplying his larder. As a rule they are not difficult game to get 

 within shot of, so that one or two may generally be procured when needed. 

 In the open, however, where there is no possibility of stalking, they are 

 sometimes very tantalising, having a habit of trotting languidly on, just as 

 the hunter is getting within convenient range, the horns of the rams 

 bobbing up and down over their backs as they nod their heads lazily in 

 time with their action, as if it were too much trouble to hold them steady. 



Fig. 32.— Grant\ Gazelle [Gazella grant!). Photographed by Lord Delamere near Mount Marsabit, 

 Rendile Country, S.E. of Lake Rudolph. 



Then, when they have increased the distance between them and their 

 pursuer, they slacken their pace to a walk again, still keeping only their 

 white sterns towards him, till he once more gains on them, and so on. A 

 plan which sometimes succeeds under such circumstances is, instead of 

 following them, to walk round in a semicircle as if going past, but gradually 

 edging nearer. They are then more likely to stand and allow of a shot 

 being got than if followed directly. But these tactics are better commenced 

 from some distance off, as, of course, you must not get to windward of the 

 game in the course of your manoeuvres. It not infrequently happens that 



