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because he had brought down a hartebeest that Cecily 
had missed — missed on purpose, she said, to give him 
the pleasure of bagging it. Anyway, there lay the 
trophy, a present, Ralph said, for me. I thanked him 
profusely, because our collection was not overdone 
with this variety. 
I do not really admire this antelope very much, or 
perhaps I should say I admire it less than any other, 
since every antelope has some points of undoubted 
beauty. Their faces are what baulk me. They are 
so silly looking, like a particularly inane cow™ a cow’s 
face, and yet not a cow’s face, and though very massive 
and magnificent in the fore they pan out to nothing in 
the hind quarters. The horns, set in sockets, are 
hardly ever the same, curving this way and that way, 
as cow’s do. Hartebeest are the quickest goers in all 
the antelope world. They are never spoken of by the 
natives by any other name than “ sig.” And this is 
odd, because in other varieties I frequently heard the 
correct designation. 
The best of friends must part, and we were no 
exception to the rule. However, we buoyed ourselves 
up with the notion that it was not to be for long. For 
the second time the opposition shoot watched our 
departure, but this time we all had an interest in the 
affair — very different to the almost animosity that 
actuated us at the start. Souvent femme varie , and 
man too. 
Our caravan got on the move once more. The 
hams were not well filled because we had used up all 
the water, whoever it belonged to, and this made it 
