THE MIGHTIEST NIMROD OF MODERN TIMES. 
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knew was a male inyala—the first that my eyes had ever looked on 
in the flesh. 
“ My rifle was a single-barreled one, and before I could fire the 
shot that might make that rare and beautiful beast mine, I had to 
open the breech of my rifle, take another cartridge from my belt, 
slip it into the chamber, close the breech again, and then raise the 
rifle to my shoulder and take aim. 
'' All this meant time and noise. Would the inyala, which stood 
like a statue beside the dead body of his mate, give me the few 
seconds I required to take his life, too? 
“ I little thought he would, but he did; and as I raised my 
rifle once more, and took a quick but careful sight on his dark shoul¬ 
ders, I felt, as I pulled the trigger, that he was mine. 
SHOT RIGHT THROUGH THE SHOULDERS. 
As the report of the rifle sounded he plunged madly forward, 
and was instantly lost to sight in the thick scrub. But I felt sure 
he carried death with him, and so it proved, for we found him lying 
dead not twenty yards from where he had stood when the bullet 
struck him. The fatal missile had passed right through his shoul¬ 
ders, and having expanded on impact, had torn his heart to pieces.’' 
These antelopes, now much depleted in number even within 
the few years that have elapsed since Mr. Selous secured his speci¬ 
mens, are about seven feet six inches in total length for the adult 
male, and three feet four inches high at the shoulder, elegant and 
robust in form, with horns nearly two feet in length, twisted and 
having very sharp, polished extremities. 
Colonel Roosevelt’s hopes of securing a pair or more are greatly 
encouraged by the aid of Mr. Selous, of whom he believes, as did 
Captain Cuttle of Jack Bunsby, '' if anybody kin, he kin.” 
Not alone from the big game of the jungle does the hunter into 
East Africa encounter physical danger. Lurking in the pathway 
of the hunter is a standing menace from infectious fevers common 
to this locality, and it is fortunate that Colonel Roosevelt has become 
hardened to exposure through years of roughing it in the far west. 
The experiences of his strenuous life has inured him to all kinds 
