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It
was
a
knotty
point
,
but
I
made
up
my
mind
that
we
must
risk
it
and
use
the
expresses
.
"
Let
each
of
us
take
the
buck
opposite
to
him
.
Aim
well
at
the
point
of
the
shoulder
and
high
up
,
"
said
I
;
"
and
Umbopa
,
do
you
give
the
word
,
so
that
we
may
all
fire
together
.
"
Then
came
a
pause
,
each
of
us
aiming
his
level
best
,
as
indeed
a
man
is
likely
to
do
when
he
knows
that
life
itself
depends
upon
the
shot
.
"
Fire
,
"
said
Umbopa
in
Zulu
,
and
at
almost
the
same
instant
the
three
rifles
rang
out
loudly
;
three
clouds
of
smoke
hung
for
a
moment
before
us
,
and
a
hundred
echoes
went
flying
over
the
silent
snow
.
Presently
the
smoke
cleared
,
and
revealed
--
oh
,
joy
!
--
a
great
buck
lying
on
its
back
and
kicking
furiously
in
its
death
agony
.
We
gave
a
yell
of
triumph
--
we
were
saved
--
we
should
not
starve
.
Weak
as
we
were
,
we
rushed
down
the
intervening
slope
of
snow
,
and
in
ten
minutes
from
the
time
of
shooting
,
that
animal
's
heart
and
liver
were
lying
before
us
.
But
now
a
new
difficulty
arose
,
we
had
no
fuel
,
and
therefore
could
make
no
fire
to
cook
them
.
We
gazed
at
each
other
in
dismay
.
"
Starving
men
should
not
be
fanciful
,
"
said
Good
;
"
we
must
eat
raw
meat
.
"
There
was
no
other
way
out
of
the
dilemma
,
and
our
gnawing
hunger
made
the
proposition
less
distasteful
than
it
would
otherwise
have
been
.
So
we
took
the
heart
and
liver
and
buried
them
for
a
few
minutes
in
a
patch
of
snow
to
cool
them
.
Then
we
washed
them
in
the
ice-cold
water
of
the
stream
,
and
lastly
ate
them
greedily
.
It
sounds
horrible
enough
,
but
honestly
,
I
never
tasted
anything
so
good
as
that
raw
meat
.
In
a
quarter
of
an
hour
we
were
changed
men
.
Our
life
and
vigour
came
back
to
us
,
our
feeble
pulses
grew
strong
again
,
and
the
blood
went
coursing
through
our
veins
.
But
mindful
of
the
results
of
over-feeding
on
starved
stomachs
,
we
were
careful
not
to
eat
too
much
,
stopping
whilst
we
were
still
hungry
.
"
Thank
Heaven
!
"
said
Sir
Henry
;
"
that
brute
has
saved
our
lives
.
What
is
it
,
Quatermain
?
"
I
rose
and
went
to
look
at
the
antelope
,
for
I
was
not
certain
.
It
was
about
the
size
of
a
donkey
,
with
large
curved
horns
.
I
had
never
seen
one
like
it
before
;
the
species
was
new
to
me
.
It
was
brown
in
colour
,
with
faint
red
stripes
,
and
grew
a
thick
coat
.
I
afterwards
discovered
that
the
natives
of
that
wonderful
country
call
these
bucks
"
inco
.
"
They
are
very
rare
,
and
only
found
at
a
great
altitude
where
no
other
game
will
live
.
This
animal
was
fairly
hit
high
up
in
the
shoulder
,
though
whose
bullet
brought
it
down
we
could
not
,
of
course
,
discover
.
I
believe
that
Good
,
mindful
of
his
marvellous
shot
at
the
giraffe
,
secretly
set
it
down
to
his
own
prowess
,
and
we
did
not
contradict
him
.
We
had
been
so
busy
satisfying
our
hunger
that
hitherto
we
had
not
found
time
to
look
about
us
.
But
now
,
having
set
Umbopa
to
cut
off
as
much
of
the
best
meat
as
we
were
likely
to
be
able
to
carry
,
we
began
to
inspect
our
surroundings
.
The
mist
had
cleared
away
,
for
it
was
eight
o'clock
,
and
the
sun
had
sucked
it
up
,
so
we
were
able
to
take
in
all
the
country
before
us
at
a
glance
.
