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worse ; for one brother, Reginald S. 0. Ingle, joining 
the Imperial Light Horse, was shot dead before Vry- 
heid, May 20, 1900 ; while J. C. Ingle was seized and 
held prisoner in Lydenburg gaol for eight weary months. 
Escaping thence he did good service as Intelligence 
Officer with Bethune’s Light Horse. But by way of 
reprisal, the Boers burnt down his house and store, 
MY FIRST VIEW OF A SABLE BULL. “JUMPED UP WITH A SNORT.” 
with all it contained — including my forty - four 
trophies ! 
Koodoo. —Strepsiceros kudu . 
We did not try for this, though Baringo is a well- 
known locality. Its haunts there are among specially 
stony mountains—piles of rugged boulders, hidden 
amidst wiry grass and ornamented with thorny creepers, 
the hardest of “ going.” The most deadly enemy of 
the koodoo in that region is the hunting-dog, which 
destroys more than all the licensed sportsmen put 
together. 
My own heads are from Mashonaland and the 
Transvaal. 
