. Auf Safari : Großwildjagd in Britisch-Ostafrika, mit Studien in der Vogelwelt . alles zwischen den Augen, und der nächste Schuss gab mir eine Sekunde - beide am Extremeranges. Obwohl große Bullen, weder trug eine erste-Ratehead. Von der Stelle, wo Nr. 2 auf den Grat des arocky Bluff fiel, schauten wir hinunter nach dem Athi Fluss, itscourse durch Gürtel von Reisig und hohen Wald-Bäumen, die die Ufer säumen angezeigt. Spionage von hier, wir madeout eine Gruppe von zehn Gnus, die lustlos in agreen corrie eine Meile entfernt stehen; aber mit einem einzigen alten Bullalert als Wachposten. Diese erwiesen sich auch wilder als wild, undstalking j) racti

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. On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life . all between the eyes, and the next shot gave me a second—both at extremeranges. Though big bulls, neither carried a first-ratehead. From the spot where No. 2 fell on the ridge of arocky bluff we looked down upon the Athi River, itscourse indicated by belts of brushwood and tall forest-trees that fringe the banks. Spying from here, we madeout a group of ten wildebeests, standing listless in agreen corrie a mile away; but with a single old bullalert as sentry. These also proved wilder than wild, andstalking j)ractically impossible. Though undulated, thesloping gradients of this veld are altogether too spacious, the angles too gentle, to afford any real advantage. THE ATHI PLAINS 203 After many laborious attempts—all in vain—as a lastresource we tried an appeal to the known curiosityof the gnu. As the string of great shaggy beastswent prancing and capering along a slope 500 yardsaway, Hamisi and I threw ourselves down flat on thegrass just before the animals took a slight fold in the. THE SENTRY—WHITE-BEARDED GNUS. hill-face. We could then barely see their backs andwildly-whirling tails as they scampered along, half-hidden in the hollow beyond. The ruse, however, sofar succeeded that the troop, pausing in mid-career, wheeled half round, dashed up the intervening slopeand pulled up, facing us, on the crest. They now presented a fair shot at 300 to 350 yards;but Nemesis stood at my elbow, exacting the full price for that random shooting of the morning. It had 204 ON SAFAEI demoralised me, and now my sighting was too liigli, and the ball passed harmless overhead. Off scamperedthose weird wildebeests, their bucking heads and whirl-ing tails half seen throuo-h clouds of dust. I watchedthem for miles, and knew that mv star had set. In thebroiling noontide heat, I walked down to our camp onthe Athi. Under the shade by the river stood four waterbuck—the first of the white-ringed species {E

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• bookauthorchapmana
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• bookyear1908