When Finally
We Arrived I Fired The Ardour Of My Companions
By Relating The Adventures Of The Afternoon And
Telling
Them of the wonderful herd I had seen;
and it was at once agreed that we should stay
where we
Were for a day or two in the hope
of good sport being obtained.
As soon as it was daylight the next morning
I sent out a party of our porters with full
instructions where to find my eland, which I was sure
must be lying somewhere in the thicket close to
the hill from where I had shot him; and very
shortly afterwards we ourselves made a start.
After a couple of hours' travelling we were lucky
enough to catch sight of a portion of the herd
of eland, when we dismounted and stalked them
carefully through the long grass. All of a sudden
one popped up its head unexpectedly about fifty
yards away. One of my companions
immediately levelled his rifle at it, but from where I
was I could see better than he that the head
was a poor one, and so called out to him not
to fire. The warning came too late, however,
for at that moment he pulled the trigger. It
was rather a difficult shot, too, as the body of
the animal could not be seen very well owing to
the height of the grass; still, as the head
instantly disappeared we hoped for the best and
ran up to the place, but no trace of the eland
could be found.
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