DEATH OF A LESSER KOODOO 
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When we got to camp I drank a few more gallons of 
water, had some breakfast, and rested an hour. As the 
men complained that they were very hungry, I was obliged 
to kill another of my camels for them. 
In the afternoon I wended my way to the little oasis. 
About 3 o’clock a hyaena ‘ shouted ’ close to us. This was 
the first time I had heard a hyaena in brilliant sunshine. 
Soon after I saw a grand lesser koodoo, all unconscious of 
our presence, feeding on a green bush which has an oval 
leaf, apparently much sought after by these antelopes. 
Bang ! went the rifle, and the grand beast gave a leap 
LESSER KOODOO AND GUNBEARER. 
into the air and then rolled over dead. What a beauty he 
was, and what a fine head ! Twenty-two inches his horns 
measured in a straig-ht line, and 28 inches round the 
curve. 
I went once more to the pretty little spot in the desert, 
took ofiF my clothes, and, sitting in the cool rain-water, 
splashed it over and over my heated body. I lay at full 
length and wallowed in the muddy water. I had not had 
such an enjoyable bath since leaving the lake in the rock 
at Sinnadogho. Hyaenas prowled round the camp all night 
