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succumbed to a fifth bullet (in the neck) after the sun 
had ahead} 7 set. 
In a single day I had thus secured two animals that- 
had previously defied our utmost efforts during a fort¬ 
night’s hunting. The heads of my two first Neumann 
bulls measured as follows— 1 
LENGTH. CIRCUMFERENCE. 
No. 1 . 17J ins. 8J ins. 
No. 2 . 16 J ins. 9J ins. 
The irides were light hazel (those of Jackson’s 
hartebeest being pale yellow), and they possessed a sort 
of dew-claw between the cleft of the fore-hoofs. Their 
dead-weight we estimated at 400 lbs., intermediate 
between B. jacJcsoni, which we put at 400 to 450 lbs., 
and B. colei at 300 to 350 lbs. 
An incident which occurred during our pursuit of this 
wounded bull deserves note. We were attended, all 
the time, by a hyena which, scenting blood, trotted 
along under our lee. He never ranged up alongside the 
game (which held a 500-yard lead), but kept level and 
not 100 yards away. I was keen to secure him, as Elmi 
positively asserted that this hyena was different to the 
spotted hyenas we had already shot (.Hycena crocuta), 
and I saw myself a distinction. It was probably of the 
striped species (II. striata ); but I dare not risk losing 
our main objective, and before that had been secured 
we had already lost sight of the hyena in the gathering 
gloom of night. 
Another curious incident: At times, as we passed 
by troops of grazing gazelles, our attendant hyena 
trotted through the midst of these without arousing 
alarm in their timid breasts. So incredible did this 
appear, that I lay down on an ant-hill, sacrificing precious 
moments, and brought the glass to bear. There, beyond 
all doubt, was that great gaunt beast of prey peacefully 
1 These are only average specimens; we subsequently obtained 
trophies exceeding 19 ins. 
TIP TO TIP. 
6f ins. 
8 J ins. 
