covering-point

Updated: August 18, 2026

I stalked it very carefully until I arrived within about a hundred yards, and just as I reached the stem of a tree that I had resolved upon as my covering-point, the tetel got my wind, and immediately bounded off, receiving the bullet in the right hip at the same moment.

Sir Samuel White Baker - The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs