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African Game Trails 
We sent a porter to bring out Heller, and 
an ox-wagon on which to take the skin to 
camp. While waiting for them I killed a 
topi bull, at two hundred and sixty yards, 
with one bullet, and a wilde¬ 
beest bull with a dozen; I 
crippled him with my first 
shot at three hundred and 
sixty yards, and then walked 
and trotted after him a couple 
of miles, getting running and 
standing shots at from three 
hundred to five hundred yards. 
I hit him seven times. As with 
everything else I shot, the topi 
and wildebeest were preserved 
as specimens for the Museum, 
and their flesh used for food. 
Our porters had much to do, 
and they did it well, partly be¬ 
cause they were fed well. We 
killed no game of which we 
did not make the fullest use. 
It would be hard to convey to 
those who have not seen it on 
the ground an accurate idea 
of its abundance. When I was 
walking up to this rhino, there 
were in sight two giraffes, sev¬ 
eral wildebeest bulls, and herds 
of hartebeest, topi, zebra, and 
the big and little gazelles. 
In addition to being a mighty 
hunter, and an adept in the by 
no means easy work of hand¬ 
ling a large safari in the wild¬ 
erness, Cuninghame was also 
a good field naturalist and tax¬ 
idermist; and at this camp we 
got so many specimens that he 
was obliged to spend most of 
his time helping Heller; and 
they pressed into the work at 
times even Tarlton. Accord¬ 
ingly Kermit and I generally 
went off by ourselves, either 
together or separately. Once 
however Kermit went with 
Tarlton, and was as usual 
lucky with cheetahs, killing 
two. Tarlton was an accom¬ 
plished elephant, buffalo, and 
rhino hunter, but he preferred 
the chase of the lion to all 
other kinds of- sport; and if 
lions were not to be found he 
liked to follow anything else he could gallop 
on horseback. Kermit was also a good and 
hard rider. On this occasion they found a 
herd of eland, and galloped into it. The big 
