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table. There was a small 
herd of blue wildebeest, 
and among them one un¬ 
usually large bull with an 
unusually fine head; Ker- 
mit finally killed him. 
There were plenty of wart- 
hogs, which were to be 
found feeding right out in 
the open, both in the morn¬ 
ing and the evening. One 
day Kermit got a really 
noteworthysow with tusks 
much longer than those of 
the average boar. He ran 
into her on horseback after 
a sharp chase of a mile or 
two, and shot her from the 
saddle as he galloped near¬ 
ly alongside, holding his 
rifle as the old buffalo-run¬ 
ners used to hold theirs, 
that is, not bringing it to 
his shoulder. I killed two 
or three half-grown pigs 
for the table, but I am sor¬ 
ry to say that I missed sev¬ 
eral chances at good boars. 
Finally one day I got up to 
just two hundred and fifty 
yards from a good boar 
as he stood broadside to 
me; firing with the little 
Springfield I put the bul¬ 
let through both shoulders, 
and he was dead when we 
came up. 
B ut of course the swarms 
of game consisted of zebra 
and hartebeest. At no time, 
when riding in any direc¬ 
tion across these plains, 
were we ever out of sight 
of them. Sometimes they would act warily 
and take the alarm when we were a long dis¬ 
tance off. At other times herds would stand 
and gaze at us while we passed within a 
couple of hundred yards. One afternoon 
we needed, meat for the safari, and Cuning- 
hame and I rode out to get it. Within half 
a mile \ye came upon big herds both of harte- 
bees.t and zebra. They stood to give me 
long-range shots at about three hundred 
yards., I missed once and then wounded a 
zebra, after which Cuninghame rode. While 
he was off, I killed first a zebra and then a 
Falls on the Rewero River. 
hartebeest, and shortly afterward a cloud of 
dust announced that Cuninghame was bring¬ 
ing a herd of game toward me. I knelt mo¬ 
tionless, and the long files of red coated 
hartebeest and brilliantly striped zebra came 
galloping past. They were quite a distance 
off, but I had time for several shots at'each 
animal I selected, and I dropped one more 
zebra and one more hartebeest, in addition, 
I regret to add, to wounding another harte¬ 
beest. The four hartebeest and zebra lay 
within a space of a quarter of a mile; and 
half a mile further I bagged a tommy at two 
