10 Or 12 Is The Real Bone-Crusher - That Will Drop Every Animal Shot In Its Tracks, By Which All Fatigue And Disappointment Are Avoided. Several Times During These Two Days Was I Disappointed After Most Laborious Stalking And Creeping Along The Ground.

Once I came suddenly upon an eland while I had a Winchester rifle in my hand - the eland and myself mutually astonished - at not more than twenty-five yards apart.

I fired at its chest, and bullet, true to its aim, sped far into the internal parts, and the blood spouted from the wound: in a few minutes he was far away, and I was too much disappointed to follow him. All love of the chase seemed to be dying away before these several mishaps. What were two antelopes for one day's sport to the thousands that browsed over the plain?

The animals taken to camp during our three days' sport were two buffaloes, two wild boar, three hartebeest, one zebra, and one pallah; besides which, were shot eight guinea-fowls, three florican, two fish-eagles, one pelican, and one of the men caught a couple of large silurus fish. In the meantime the people had cut, sliced, and dried this bounteous store of meat for our transit through the long wilderness before us.

Saturday the 7th day of October, we broke up camp, to the great regret of the meat-loving, gormandizing Wangwana. They delegated Bombay early in the morning to speak to me, and entreat of me to stop one day longer.

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