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waste land, repairing as a rule to the fields for food, and resting when they can on bare 
and sandy soil. During the rainy season, however, they are fond of concealing them- 
selves among high-standing crops, and only come out in the mornings and evenings. 
Black Buck are very pugnacious, and sometimes fight so desperately that they will allow 
a person to walk close up to them without observing him. Many have their horns 
broken in their combats, and I have seen one both of whose horns were broken off 
within three inches of the head. Antelopes are usually found in considerable herds, 
varying in numbers from ten or a dozen to a couple of hundred. A buck and one doe, 
or a buck and a couple of does, may, however, be frequently met with; and vast herds 
of many thousands have occasionally been seen. When in large numbers they of course 
do much damage to the crops, and it is with difficulty that the natives drive them away. 
It is a beautiful sight when a herd of Antelopes are first alarmed ; as soon as they have 
made up their minds that safety is only to be found in flight, first one, then another 
bounds into the air to a surprising height, just touching the earth, and again springing 
upwards, until the whole herd are in motion. So light are their movements that they 
seem as if they were suspended on wires. These bounds are only continued for a few 
strides, after which the Antelopes generally settle down into a regular gallop. The 
speed of the Black Buck is wonderful, and it is seldom that greyhounds can pull down 
an unwounded one; but I knew one dog that caught several, both bucks and does, on 
fair ground. Antelopes will go away when very hard hit, and a wounded one will often 
give a capital run, if ridden after with spear or knife; the latter is nearly as good as 
the former, for the buck runs so game, that he will not, as a rule, give a chance of 
spearing him until he is so completely exhausted that he drops with fatigue, when one 
may dismount and cut his throat. The sportsman can choose between riding down or 
coursing his wounded Antelope ; but either a good horse or a brace of greyhounds 
should aiways be in readiness, or the best shot will have the mortification of seeing 
maimed animals escape to die a lingering death.” 
The chase of the Black-buck by the Cheetah (Cynelurus jubatus) is a 
favourite sport of the native Princes and Nobles of India. General Kinloch, 
in the work we have just quoted, describes one of these chases, in which he 
took part, as follows :— 
“Barly one morning at the beginning of June, M. (a brother Officer) and I rode out 
with the Chita cart, and had not proceeded very far across the fields, which were then 
almost destitute of vegetation, when some Black Buck were discovered in the distance. 
M. then took his seat beside the keeper of the cart, while I rode alongside, taking care 
to keep the cart between me and the Antelope. The herd had evidently been hunted 
before, and in spite of careful manceuvring would never allow us to approach within a 
hundred and fifty yards, which the keeper considered too great a distance for a successful 
slip. Several other antelope were followed with a similar result, but at last a herd that 
were grazing in a very rough field permitted the bullocks to trot up to within a hundred 
yards. The Chita was now unhooded, and on catching sight of the game he sprang 
