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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
within a hundred and fifty yards of the herd. I 
could not venture any farther without risk of being 
seen, so, selecting the best-looking cow—there being 
no bull—I fired. Her shoulder was broken by the shot, 
but she led me a long way, before I secured her, by 
moving slowly forward whenever I was almost within 
range. 
The eland is a large animal, standing high, with a 
slight hump on the withers, and has a dewlap depend¬ 
ing from the breast, to which is attached a tuft of long 
hair. The lower part of the body is grey, while the 
upper portion is reddish-brown, intersected by a few 
faint white stripes. Some of the old hulls are of a light 
bluish-grey all over, and have very thick horns, a 
distinct contrast to those of the cow, which are usually 
thin and delicately tapered. Those of the largest bull 
we killed measured twenty-eight inches, and those of 
the largest cow about thirty inches, but I believe they 
attain to greater length in other parts of Africa; they 
are twisted in their longer axis, and diverge with a 
backward incline. While in pursuit of the wounded 
eland my men reported another rhino, and I immedi¬ 
ately followed their lead, but only to reach a point from 
which I could see a monster black mass ploughing 
its way at a tremendous pace across the plain, in an 
opposite direction to myself. It must have passed the 
carcasses we had left, and then ascending the hill, for a 
short distance, got our wind. It is astonishing what a 
pace these clumsy-looking animals can go when startled, 
and this one, as he careered along, at the rate of about 
