Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa: With ... 2
Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa: With ... 2
Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn, 1820-1866
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A wary old doe kept sentry, and prevented my approaching within a hundred yards. I therefore took this doe, and shot her with a bullet in the shoulder. I then sent Ruyter for the natives, and at once dispatched the head to camp to be stuffed. In the evening I fell in again with this same troop of potaquaines on the northern range of the mountain. They heard me coming on before I was aware of them, and held up the wind over very rocky ground and through thick cover. I followed on in their wake l...ike an old stag-houndy keeping close to them, and always halting when they halted; thus they did not observe STALKli^G SABLE ANTELOPES^ 219 kne, and at last I got close in npon them. I could then have had a fine shot at several of the does, but I want- ed the old black buck. I aimed for his heart, but an unlucky branch intervened, and, altering the line of my ball, lost me this most npble animal. I, however, fired a snap shot at him with my left barrel, and sent a bul- let through his Hank. The herd then dashed down the -mountain side, making a tremendous rumpus an^ong the loose masses of rock, the old buck leaving a bloody «poor, I did not disturb them further then, the sun being under, but returned to my home benieafh the greenwood tree.
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