Five years in the Sudan . n the district, I started stalking a fine buck, and atlast got to within range of him, where he was browsingin a small clearing. It had been difficult going, as thegrass was very long, so I lay down to get a steadyshot. I got the bead fairly on his heart, and was onthe point of pulling the trigger when a Jacksonshartebeeste walked right across my line of had not known that there were any hartebeestein the district, and I was so surprised that I nearlylet the chance escape me. However, I pulled myselftogether in time, and fired before he had passed intothe surr
Five years in the Sudan . n the district, I started stalking a fine buck, and atlast got to within range of him, where he was browsingin a small clearing. It had been difficult going, as thegrass was very long, so I lay down to get a steadyshot. I got the bead fairly on his heart, and was onthe point of pulling the trigger when a Jacksonshartebeeste walked right across my line of had not known that there were any hartebeestein the district, and I was so surprised that I nearlylet the chance escape me. However, I pulled myselftogether in time, and fired before he had passed intothe surrounding grass. He proved to be a very finebuck, so my last days shooting turned out to beamong my most successful ones. It was just about this time that a Belgian officer,planting his men in the Bahr-el-Ghazal, and refusingto move them at the request of the British comman-dant of the province, gave us a little excitement atMongalla. Had the thing led to war with Belgium,as seemed at one time to be possible, we should have. UPPER NILE AND BELGIAN CONGO 173 started with a bombardment of the Belgian fortson the Nile. We immediately became busy withgun practice, and it was scarcely comforting to findthat the two big guns of the Sheikh, which was lyingguardship at the Mongalla station, blew out theirbreeches as soon as they were tried. It was a goodthing that war did not break out, for though thelittle pop-guns on the Abu Klea were in fair condition,she only had one heavy gun, and this would nothave been very much use against the arrayed forces ofthe Belgians on the Nile. It was an exciting time,taking it all through. One never knew what thenext orders from Khartoum might be, and in themeantime we cruised about and looked important. The scare was productive of at least two goodresults. In the first place it led to a thorough over-hauling of the gunboat fleet of the Nile ; and in thesecond it led to the discovery of a channel by whichboats could be sent up to Lado, the chief Congo po
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