ch. xi] ORYX, ELAND, ETC. 271 
neck of a fine cow, at four hundred and fifty yards. 
Six or seven hundred yards off the survivors stopped, 
and the biggest bull, evidently much put out, uttered 
loud bawling grunts and drove the others round with 
his horns. Meanwhile X was admiring the handsome 
dun gray coat of my prize, its long tail and long, sharp, 
slender horns, and the bold black-and-white markings 
on its face. Hardly had we skinned the carcass before 
the vultures lit on it; with them were two marabou 
storks, one of which I shot with a hard bullet from the 
Springfield. 
The oryx, like the roan and sable, and in striking 
contrast to the eland, is a bold and hard fighter, and 
when cornered will charge a man or endeavour to stab 
a lion. If wounded it must be approached with a 
certain amount of caution. The eland, on the other 
hand, in spite of its huge size, is singularly mild and 
inoffensive, an old bull being as inferior to an oryx in 
the will and power to fight as it is in speed and 
endurance. “ Antelope,” as I have said, is a very loose 
term, meaning simply any hollow-horned ruminant that 
isn’t an ox, a sheep, or a goat. The eland is one of the 
group of tragelaphs, which are as different from the 
true antelopes, such as the gazelles, as they are from 
the oxen. One of its kinsfolk is the handsome little 
bushbuck, about as big as a white-tail deer—a buck of 
which Kermit had killed two specimens. The bush- 
buck is a wicked fighter, no other buck of its size being 
as dangerous, which makes the helplessness and timidity 
of its huge relative all the more striking. 
I had kept four Kikuyus with me to accompany me 
on my hunts and carry in the skins and meat. They 
were with me on this occasion; and it was amusing to 
see how my four regular attendants, Bakhari and 
