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moments of triumph, to have to suffer four hours of 
blazing noontide heat beneath a perpendicular sun and 
not so much as the shade of a bulrush ! 
Towards 4 p.m. we started afresh, and presently fell 
in with a herd of ten, two big bulls, one of these a 
specially grand beast. But every effort to secure him 
failed. Always first to go, first to stop, yet he ever kept 
the furthest away. So riveted had my attention been 
upon the leader, with no eye for his companions during 
NEUMANN’S HARTEBEESTS. 
a two-hour chase, that it was only when Elmi pointed 
out that the second-best bull was within reasonable 
range that I realised there was another good head 
among them at all. At 250 yards full broadside the 
bullet took him one foot behind the heart; half-an-hour 
later I got in a second, one foot above that organ, just 
missing the spine. These details are given as further 
illustrating the vitality of the African antelopes. With 
these two terrible wounds (which we could clearly 
discern with the glass) this hartebeest kept ahead of 
us for another long hour’s hard going, and only 
