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WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WA YS 
CHAP. 
as it is found in deep wooded ravines, which can 
be commanded by a rifle upon both sides, should 
the animal rush forward from the bottom. Such 
deep places are seldom more than 100 yards 
across, therefore one person upon the margin can 
always obtain a shot when the koodoo is dis¬ 
turbed by throwing stones into the bottom of the 
hollow. In this case the rifle should be 100 yards 
ahead of the men who throw the stones. 
I have never seen any variety of antelope that 
was really fat. Although they are exceedingly 
muscular and fleshy, being thoroughly well 
rounded, and in good condition, the best that I 
have seen would hardly produce one pound of 
suet; that being around the kidneys. Many of 
these animals are infested by parasitical worms. 
The bubalis has a species of large maggot which 
is found in the high bony protuberance upon 
which the horns are fitted. Some of the gazelles 
have worms which bore through the flesh, and 
are only stopped by the skin, upon reaching which 
a local inflammation is set up, and blood - red 
circular spots are found beneath the surface. I 
have frequently seen gazelles that were perfectly 
unfit for food, and nevertheless they appeared to 
be in good condition until flayed. When divested 
of the skin, they were in a deplorable state, the 
inner surface of the hide being covered with 
rings of blood, the results of the worm’s puncture 
in its passage through the flesh. 
There is a peculiar charm in the antelope tribe, 
