ch. ii] SMALLER ANTELOPES 55 
ing at a wounded animal as long as there is the least 
chance of its getting off. The expenditure of a few 
cartridges is of no consequence whatever compared to 
the escape of a single head of game which should have 
been bagged. Shooting at long range necessitates 
much running. Some of my successful shots at Grant's 
gazelle and kongoni were made at 300, 350, and 400 
yards ; but at such distances my proportion of misses 
was very large indeed—and there were altogether too 
many even at shorter ranges. 
The so-called grass antelopes, the steinbuck and 
duyker, were the ones at which I shot worst. They were 
quite plentiful, and they got up close, seeking to escape 
observation by hiding until the last moment; but they 
were small, and when they did go they rushed half- 
hidden through the grass and in and out among the 
bushes at such a speed, and with such jumps and twists 
and turns, that I found it wellnigh impossible to hit 
them with the rifle. The few I got were generally shot 
when they happened to stand still. 
On the steep, rocky, bush-clad hills there were little 
klipspringers and the mountain reedbuek, or Chanler’s 
reedbuck, a very pretty little creature. Usually we 
found the reedbuck does and their fawns in small 
parties, and the bucks by themselves ; but we saw too 
few to enable us to tell whether this represented their 
normal habits. They fed on the grass, the hill plants, 
and the tips of certain of the shrubs, and were true 
mountaineers in their love of the rocks and rough 
ground, to which they fled in frantic haste when 
alarmed. They were shy and elusive little things, but 
not wary in the sense that some of the larger antelopes 
are wary. I shot two does with three bullets, all of 
which hit. Then I tried hard for a buck ; at last, late 
one evening, I got up to one feeding on a steep hillside, 
