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highest type of jungle matron, frequently abandoning 
a little one to fend for itself weeks before it has been 
taught the ways of the jungle. And so it is that 
gerenuk fawns are a great mainstay in the lion dietary. 
We let our youthful friend investigate us to his 
liking, after which he trotted off. Gerenuk seldom or 
never gallop, and get up nothing like the speed of an 
oryx for instance. 
We paused for lunch, and some surprised Midgans 
were located beneath a guda tree. Round about them 
were many fierce and vengeful-looking dogs. They 
had a fire over which they were roasting bits of flesh. 
A few dogs fought and wrangled over mangled rem- 
nants of bone, skin, and entrails. The horns and 
shield of an oryx hung on a khansa bush. The horns 
were not large, and were those of a cow oryx, killed to 
make a Midgan holiday, by the aid of the trained dogs, 
and with a couft-de-grdce of arrows. I have never seen 
the actual hunting, but I understand that these pariah 
dogs are bred by the Midgans to hunt the oryx, and 
going out in a pack make straight for the prey on being 
shown the antelope. 
The music of the chase is noteless. The dogs hunt 
in silence, until they bring the antelope to his last stand, 
when they give tongue, guiding the tracking Midgans, 
who steal up, as concealed as may be, and let fly a flight 
of arrows which either settles the oryx there and then, 
or paves the way for an easy pull down later. Very 
often the antelope makes such a glorious stand that a 
couple of dogs are left on the field of battle for the 
hyaenas. Though the dogs fasten on to their prey and 
