. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . ur mistake. Outside this pack, and all round it, at distances of50 to 100 yards, stood the bulls as sentinels. Stalking was out of thequestion, so we walked straight up to them, and I shall never forgetthe noise they made as they thundered ofF in a thick cloud of dust on The White-Bearded Gnu 201 the Doctor firing the first shot, and the curious, somewhat querulous,gnmtings of the calves calling for their mothers, lost in the confusionof the stampede. This grunting continued for several minutes after theherd pulled up, and on
. Great and small game of Africa : an account of the distribution… . ur mistake. Outside this pack, and all round it, at distances of50 to 100 yards, stood the bulls as sentinels. Stalking was out of thequestion, so we walked straight up to them, and I shall never forgetthe noise they made as they thundered ofF in a thick cloud of dust on The White-Bearded Gnu 201 the Doctor firing the first shot, and the curious, somewhat querulous,gnmtings of the calves calling for their mothers, lost in the confusionof the stampede. This grunting continued for several minutes after theherd pulled up, and only subsided when both mothers and young hadfound each other, when all was quiet, excepting the snorts of the out-standing, defiant-looking bulls. Single bulls are often seen quite aloneand at other times associating with antelopes and gazelles, particularlywith G. grant!. The wildebeest is a lover of the rolling open plains,but in places where it is not much disturbed it is also found in thinlytimbered country. In such places it is not difficult to approach within. fair rifle-shot : I do not mean of modern .303 Mannlichers and Mausers,which nearly every one now uses, and with which so many present-daysportsmen think they are justified in blazing away at everything they seeat 300 yards and upwards, entailing a fearful amount of wounded beasts,which either become food for the vultures by day and hysnas by night,or limp about for the remainder of their existence on three legs. By fairrifle-shot I mean 1 20 to 1 80 yards. On the open plains stalking in the ordinary sense of the word is almostout of the question, and, when these animals have been much shot at, quitehopeless. In places where they are rarely disturbed they will often standand allow the hunter to approach within 120 to 150 yards, provided he 202 Great and Small Game of Africa does not walk straight for them, but pretends to walk past, graduallysidling in nearer as he proceeds. On my way down country a short time back
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