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Going
,
going
,
go
--
What
was
that
?
Suddenly
,
from
the
direction
of
the
water
came
sounds
of
violent
scuffling
,
and
next
instant
there
broke
upon
our
ears
a
succession
of
the
most
awful
roars
.
There
was
no
mistaking
their
origin
;
only
a
lion
could
make
such
a
noise
as
that
.
We
all
jumped
up
and
looked
towards
the
water
,
in
the
direction
of
which
we
saw
a
confused
mass
,
yellow
and
black
in
colour
,
staggering
and
struggling
towards
us
.
We
seized
our
rifles
,
and
slipping
on
our
veldtschoons
,
that
is
shoes
made
of
untanned
hide
,
ran
out
of
the
scherm
.
By
this
time
the
mass
had
fallen
,
and
was
rolling
over
and
over
on
the
ground
,
and
when
we
reached
the
spot
it
struggled
no
longer
,
but
lay
quite
still
.
Now
we
saw
what
it
was
.
On
the
grass
there
lay
a
sable
antelope
bull
--
the
most
beautiful
of
all
the
African
antelopes
--
quite
dead
,
and
transfixed
by
its
great
curved
horns
was
a
magnificent
black-maned
lion
,
also
dead
.
Evidently
what
had
happened
was
this
:
The
sable
antelope
had
come
down
to
drink
at
the
pool
where
the
lion
--
no
doubt
the
same
which
we
had
heard
--
was
lying
in
wait
.
While
the
antelope
drank
,
the
lion
had
sprung
upon
him
,
only
to
be
received
upon
the
sharp
curved
horns
and
transfixed
.
Once
before
I
saw
a
similar
thing
happen
.
Then
the
lion
,
unable
to
free
himself
,
had
torn
and
bitten
at
the
back
and
neck
of
the
bull
,
which
,
maddened
with
fear
and
pain
,
had
rushed
on
until
it
dropped
dead
.
As
soon
as
we
had
examined
the
beasts
sufficiently
we
called
the
Kafirs
,
and
between
us
managed
to
drag
their
carcases
up
to
the
scherm
.
After
that
we
went
in
and
lay
down
,
to
wake
no
more
till
dawn
.
With
the
first
light
we
were
up
and
making
ready
for
the
fray
.
We
took
with
us
the
three
eight-bore
rifles
,
a
good
supply
of
ammunition
,
and
our
large
water-bottles
,
filled
with
weak
cold
tea
,
which
I
have
always
found
the
best
stuff
to
shoot
on
.
After
swallowing
a
little
breakfast
we
started
,
Umbopa
,
Khiva
,
and
Ventvögel
accompanying
us
.
The
other
Kafirs
we
left
with
instructions
to
skin
the
lion
and
the
sable
antelope
,
and
to
cut
up
the
latter
.
We
had
no
difficulty
in
finding
the
broad
elephant
trail
,
which
Ventvögel
,
after
examination
,
pronounced
to
have
been
made
by
between
twenty
and
thirty
elephants
,
most
of
them
full-grown
bulls
.
But
the
herd
had
moved
on
some
way
during
the
night
,
and
it
was
nine
o'clock
,
and
already
very
hot
,
before
,
by
the
broken
trees
,
bruised
leaves
and
bark
,
and
smoking
droppings
,
we
knew
that
we
could
not
be
far
from
them
.
Presently
we
caught
sight
of
the
herd
,
which
numbered
,
as
Ventvögel
had
said
,
between
twenty
and
thirty
,
standing
in
a
hollow
,
having
finished
their
morning
meal
,
and
flapping
their
great
ears
.
It
was
a
splendid
sight
,
for
they
were
only
about
two
hundred
yards
from
us
.
Taking
a
handful
of
dry
grass
,
I
threw
it
into
the
air
to
see
how
the
wind
was
;
for
if
once
they
winded
us
I
knew
they
would
be
off
before
we
could
get
a
shot
.
Finding
that
,
if
anything
,
it
blew
from
the
elephants
to
us
,
we
crept
on
stealthily
,
and
thanks
to
the
cover
managed
to
get
within
forty
yards
or
so
of
the
great
brutes
.
Just
in
front
of
us
,
and
broadside
on
,
stood
three
splendid
bulls
,
one
of
them
with
enormous
tusks
.
I
whispered
to
the
others
that
I
would
take
the
middle
one
;
Sir
Henry
covering
the
elephant
to
the
left
,
and
Good
the
bull
with
the
big
tusks
.
"
Now
,
"
I
whispered
.
Boom
!
boom
!
boom
!
went
the
three
heavy
rifles
,
and
down
came
Sir
Henry
's
elephant
dead
as
a
hammer
,
shot
right
through
the
heart
.
Mine
fell
on
to
its
knees
and
I
thought
that
he
was
going
to
die
,
but
in
another
moment
he
was
up
and
off
,
tearing
along
straight
past
me
.
