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BIG GAME AND BIG GAME HUNTING 
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of hunters being charged by roan and sable antelopes, 
and of the redoubtable and vicious fighting character 
of the bushbuck, which, so says one account, will 
charge a man without hesitation. In all my hunting 
career, and I have shot dozens of the three last- 
MY TWO TRACKERS. SIMBA (ON LEFT), TUMBO (ON RIGHT). 
mentioned game, on no occasion have I ever been 
charged by any of them. 
Almost any wounded animal, when you approach 
him, will instinctively endeavour to defend himself, 
and the statement would apply to the ordinary billy- 
goat at home ; but to class any of these antelopes as 
dangerous is, in my opinion, purely and simply 
