. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . eared to enjoy big rocks and difficult places like chamois in the are good climbers, and I do not know of any other game more difficultto locate ; their colour matches so exactly with the ground that, whenmotionless, it is almost impossible to see them. I do not think they mindat all the want of water, as they never go down to the plains ; in thehills where I saw them there was absolutely no water, except for a verylittle dew on the tops of the hills, when the wind blowing from the sea The Beira 179 was carrying dow
. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . eared to enjoy big rocks and difficult places like chamois in the are good climbers, and I do not know of any other game more difficultto locate ; their colour matches so exactly with the ground that, whenmotionless, it is almost impossible to see them. I do not think they mindat all the want of water, as they never go down to the plains ; in thehills where I saw them there was absolutely no water, except for a verylittle dew on the tops of the hills, when the wind blowing from the sea The Beira 179 was carrying down clouds along the rocks. Altogether this is a very hardkind of game to bag ; one has to climb in fearfully hot places, over steeprocks, without any water, and the animals are very difficult to see, rathershy, and, as they are so small, require very straight shooting. When I came across beira it was quite unexpectedly. I knew thename of the buck from Major Swaynes book, but was not aware of anyin the vicinity. I had been after greater koodoo the whole morning, and. finally had seen from the top of a high rocky spur a big one going milesaway. I was sitting close by a Somali shepherd, who was tending somegoats. He said to me, You like shooting a beira ? and took me tothe end of the spur, where he pointed downwards. I made out undersome leafless bushes about 80 yards away the faint outline of two were standing, and I fired and broke the fore-leg of the male. Bothwent across a ravine, and at about 120 yards distance, down came the buckwith a .303 bullet through the head. Finding there were some of theseantelope about in these hills, I made up my mind to go and sleep on 380 Great and Small Game of Africa the top of a rock about 3000 feet high, where I might have a good view ofall the valleys. We reached the place about three-quarters of an hourbefore sunset, and were just preparing a place for sleeping in a cleft of rock,when a gun-bearer of mine, Abdallah, one of the
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