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burn the tangled undergrowth of the forest and the high grass of the plains, according 
to their annual custom. They would then have a battue; hundreds of people would 
collect, and the animated nature, towards the close of the day, would be driven into a 
large plain. There Antelopes, Gazelles, Wild Boars, Porcupines, &c. would be found so 
exhausted that many of them could be killed with sticks; and indeed only a limited 
number of guns were allowed in case of accidents. Accordingly I made an arrangement 
with them that the first specimen they killed should be sent to Sedhu, where my friend 
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Herd of Derbian Elands. 
(From Winwood Reade’s ‘ Savage Africa.’) 
M. Rapet would buy it for me, and send it on. Thus I obtained one specimen; the 
others I purchased at Macarthy’s Island, Gambia. 
“T made inquiries of the hunters of Nussera as to the habits of the Derbian Eland. 
They told me that the forest was its home; that it never of its own accord entered the 
plains ; that it never grazed, but that the bull would tear down branches of trees for 
the does and fawns to feed upon. 
“A fawn, destined for le Jardin des Plantes, was once sent by M. Rapet from the 
