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or reeds. The kob, on the contrary, were always anxious 
themselves to see round about, and, like waterbuck and 
hartebeest, frequently used the ant-heaps as lookout sta¬ 
tions. It was a pretty sight to see a herd of the bright red 
creatures clustered on a big ant-hill, all the necks out¬ 
stretched, and all the ears thrown forward. The females 
are hornless. By the middle of November we noticed an 
occasional new-born calf. 
The handsome, shaggy-coated, singsing waterbuck had 
much the same habits as the kob. Like the kob they fed 
at all hours of the day; but they were more wary and more 
apt to be found in country where there were a good many 
bushes or small trees. Waterbuck and kob sometimes asso¬ 
ciated together. 
The best singsing bull I got I owed to Tarlton’s good 
eyesight and skill in tracking and stalking. The herd of 
which he was master bull were shy, and took the alarm 
just as we first saw them. Tarlton followed their trail for a 
couple of miles, and then stalked them to an inch, by the 
dextrous use of a couple of bushes and an ant-hill; the 
ant-hill being reached after a two hundred yards’ crawl, 
first on all-fours and then flat on the ground, which re¬ 
sulted in my getting a good off-hand shot at a hundred and 
eighty yards. At this time, about the middle of November, 
some of the cows had new-born calves. One day I shot a 
hartebeest bull, with horns twenty-four inches long, as it 
stood on the top of an ant-heap. On going up to it we 
noticed something behind a little bush, sixty yards off. 
We were puzzled what it could be, but finally made out a 
waterbuck cow; and a minute or two later away she bounded 
to safety, followed by a wee calf. The porters much ap- 
