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ON SAFARI 
This little wood, unknown to me, bordered a creek of 
Lake Nakuru, and a score of these pachyderms had been 
lying asleep within a few yards of where I had fired that 
final shot. 
Thus the bull of Neumann’s hartebeest, for the 
present, remained wanting. I had, however, secured 
an immature example, and the annexed drawing shows 
the earlier, upright growth in the horns of this species. 
They belonged to a nearly full-grown calf (female), and 
HEADS OF NEUMANN’S HARTEBEEST. 
Bull, 18| ins. (shot later); cow, 15§ ins. ; immature, 10f ins. 
measured 10f ins. in length along the front curve. How 
I came to kill this small beast I never quite knew. 
Possibly the bullet, missing its mark, had struck another ; 
more probably (the distance being great and the grass 
long) the luckless youngster had been standing in front 
of a larger animal, which masked the separate outline. 
Anyway, it lay there dead ; and, after all, its horns 
exhibit an interesting phase of growth. 
That evening, close to camp, I saw another leopard. 
He retreated into heavy bush overhanging the banks of 
a stream—a favourable place to hustle him out. I had 
fifteen “ boys ” with me, Swahilis, but to my surprise 
not one of them would face the job, and the leopard 
