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the camp-fires, what time lions were beginning to 
call. 
Next morning I secured my first pair of Grant’s 
gazelle, the buck by a shot in base of neck at over 250 
yards. He formed one of a gronp of thirty or forty 
grant’s gazelles. 
animals widely scattered among sparse bush, but his 
was the only good head. He carried massive annulated 
horns of 23 ins., by seven in basal circumference, and with 
the wide span of 16 ins. between tips. The doe I got by 
a little impromptu drive, killing her with a Paradox ball 
as she flew past at eighty yards—a lovely creature with 
horns of 15f ins. My brother also brought in a Grant 
buck, the horns being identical in length with mine, but 
narrower, the span being only 11 ins. Next day I got 
a good impala ram after a nerve-trying stalk through 
open rush-clad straths. These were, however, traversed 
