Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . I had a glorious day on my horse Jack. Hecarried me well up to a troop of roan antelopes, when my gun, unfortu-nately, missed fire. Saw a splendid old bull harrisbuck, but lost sight ofhim in trying to get below the wind, and never saw him again. Rodefar, climbing to the top of the hills; at length saw about twenty-twoharrisbucks; got below the wind and within 300 yards, when they tookthe a
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . I had a glorious day on my horse Jack. Hecarried me well up to a troop of roan antelopes, when my gun, unfortu-nately, missed fire. Saw a splendid old bull harrisbuck, but lost sight ofhim in trying to get below the wind, and never saw him again. Rodefar, climbing to the top of the hills; at length saw about twenty-twoharrisbucks; got below the wind and within 300 yards, when they tookthe alarm. I had a very long chase of five miles, at least. The groundbeing so bad, and my horse blind, I could only go steadily; at length,got them at advantage, and put Jacks powers to the test. He galloped strong and well, and as they were thundering down a passbetween two mountains, through a dry ravine, I got within three lengthsof the hindmost buck. The pace was tremendoiis. One magnificentold bull I had set my heart on, and was close to him. Jack drew upshort just on the brink of the ravine, and, in my hurry to jump off, I gotmy foot fast in the stirrup. I had my back to the bucks, and when I had. (643) 644 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. extricated my foot I had lost my bull, I fired at a large black and tancow, and either missed her altogether or gave her a bad shot., It was Fine Work at Times. In the middle of the chase I almost jumped into an ostrich nest, but Icould not think about eggs then. On returning to the wagons I heardmy horse Bryan was very sick ; he had wandered away from the wagons,and we lost him, though I followed the trail till dark, I luckily heardfrom two Kaffirs that they had seen a horses trail on the path going backat the break of day. Inyous, one of my party, and myself started in thedirection the Kaffirs told us, and, thinking it not improbable we mightbe away three or four days, I put a cap, box of salt, and a dry elandstongue in my pocket, and Iiiyous carr
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