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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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ino- thespine behind the shoulder (a foot too far back), itdropped the big bull on the spot, yet left sufiicientvitality to enable him to recover his fore-legs and remainstanding so—as a dog sits on his haunches, and as shownin the plate opposite. The other two ran at the reportof the rifle; but presently, looking back and seeing theirleader still apparently on his legs, they stood awaitinghim to rejoin. The distance was not much over 200yards, giving me a good shot at the second bull. Healso was struck too high, but fatally, and hardly moved100 yards. Both these splendid animals, in fact, stooddisabled close by, and within full view. Sending Elmi to finish the second bull, I walked upto the first, which, unable to move, watched my advancewith mild, reproachful e3es, tempering the savage joyof success. He was a veritable patriarch, his frontadorned with a mat of dark curly hair, shading ofi into i J J J 5 > 3 5 ■^ 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 S 3 3 > 3 > > 3 3 3 ■> 333333333 3
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ORYX, ELAND, IMPALA, ETC. 105 chestnut laterally, and set off by a white patch at eithertear-duct. Though almost bare of hair, the huge blue-grey body still showed the yellow vertical stripes,though indistinctly. The horns were worn down withage, and compared badly with those of the youngerbull, which taped 26 ins. straight. The latter animalwas of a bright fawn-colour, with yellow stripes. Helacked the matted forehead and pendent dewlap, butcarried a heavy tuft of hair below the neck, which hadbeen almost worn off in the older bull. Estimated weights in the field are necessarily un-certain, but this younger bull eland appeared to myeye about ec(ual in bulk and weight to a big Norwegianbull-elk. The latter animal I have actually ascertainedto scale 1,260 lbs. clean. Should this comparison becorrect, the patriarch, with his vastly bulkier frame, andcarrying far more fat, may have represented hard by aton dead-weight as he lay. The stalkinoj both of eland and Jacksons hartebeesthad been

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