Identifier: onsafaribiggameh00chaprich (find matches)
Title: On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa, with studies in bird-life
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929
Subjects: Hunting -- Africa, British East Birds -- Africa, British East Africa, British East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ur hunters at first mistook for a rhino,and we decided to spend the next day in acquiringhis mask. That mornins;, however, broke brie^ht andhot, and never a pig could we see ! They were thenall underground. I shot that day a superb granti, a solitary buck, with25-in. horns ; but merely mention the fact to illustratea phase that is worth note in this African shooting.Though severely wounded by the first shot, the buckheld on, on—till it was clear w^e should never overtakehim ; never, at least, by following hot-foot. I there-fore recalled my men, much to their disgust, and laydown to watch. The buck then, being alone, also laiddown, a mile ahead, and, growing stifter, at the end ofan hour I was able to approach again within 200 yards,when a second bullet (in ribs) further crippled him : butwe still had to put in a second thirty minutes, Ij^ingpatiently in that sweltering heat, ere he would allow 3 1 >\5 » 5 ) 5 > 3 J 1 13 1 ^ >0 ■> 3 5 3 3 3 ■> 3 3 ) 3 3 3 e >»
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o D :5: oo o ELMENTEITA IN FEBRUARY 135 another approach near enough to finish him with a thirdbullet. A prize which I regarded with even greater satisfactionthis day was a horned female of the Thomson gazelle.This does at best carry very tiny horns, and even thoseare most difticult to distinguish owing to their horns(only 4 to 5 ins. in length) being shorter than the mobileears and usually concealed thereby. Then, after closelyscrutinising through the glass a hundred does, whenone at length detects the special specimen sought, thatparticular female may be accompanied by a fawn—w^hoselife not only the game-laws, but, far more, a sportsmansinstincts render sacred. To-day, however, after many afutile effort, I succeeded not only in finding a hornedyeld doe, but in approaching and securing her. Herhorns, irregular and of somewhat abnormal appearance,measured 4 and 4j ins., and she weighed 32 lbs. That night in camp we had the usual lion-alarm, and,on turning out, distinctly s

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