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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 
a hot bath and a shave before sitting down to a supper of 
eland venison and broiled spurfowl; and surely no supper 
ever tasted more delicious. 
Next day we broke camp. My bag for the five days 
illustrates ordinary African shooting in this part of the con¬ 
tinent. Of course I could have killed many other things; 
but I shot nothing that was not absolutely needed, both for 
scientific purposes and for food; the skin of every animal I 
shot was preserved for the National Museum. The bag in¬ 
cluded fourteen animals, of ten different species: one lioness, 
one hyena, one wart-hog boar, two zebra, two eland, one 
wildebeest, two topi, two impalla, one Roberts’ gazelle, one 
Thomson’s gazelle. Except the lioness and one impalla 
(both of which I shot running), all were shot at rather 
long ranges; seven were shot standing, two walking, five 
running. The average distance at which they were shot 
was a little over two hundred and twenty yards. I used 
sixty-five cartridges, an amount which will seem excessive 
chiefly to those who are not accustomed actually to count 
the cartridges they expend, to measure the distances at 
which they fire, and to estimate for themselves the range, 
on animals in the field when they are standing or running 
a good way off. Only one wounded animal got away; and 
eight of the animals I shot had to be finished with one bullet 
—two in the case of the lioness—as they lay on the ground. 
Many of the cartridges expended really represented range¬ 
finding. 
