CHAP. XXI. 
THE GRAND BATTUE. 
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Highness on being wounded, and received a second 
ball, which rolled him over. This was the signal for a 
general onslaught. 
The hunting party advanced up the plain in ex¬ 
tended order, a few yards apart, and masses of game 
kept breaking through as the pressure of the coming 
streams of antelopes, quaggas, zeebras, bles-boks, 
eelands, ostriches, hartebeasts, wildebeasts, koodoos,. 
&Ci &c. came pouring on towards us, and, checked by 
our fire, commenced to whirl. The plain in which we 
were was of vast extent—I dare say nearly a hundred 
miles in circumference—and the whole of this extent 
was one moving mass of game. The gaps between the 
mountains on all sides of this plain were stopped by a 
living line of men, and we were in the midst of this 
whirling throng firing at great game at not twenty-five 
yards’ distance as fast as we could load. The Prince 
fired as fast as guns could be handed to him, for Currie 
rode on one side and I on the other, and we alternately 
handed guns to him as he discharged his own. As the 
circle narrowed there really was considerable danger 
from the game breaking through, for when a stampede 
took place so much dust arose that you were in danger 
of being trampled to death. It became very exciting 
to see great beasts larger than horses rolling over from 
right and left shots not ten paces from you, and also 
charging down with their great horns lowered as 
