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For a couple of hours I poked about without seeing anything that I could get a shot at, but at last, just as I was again within seventy yards of the waggon, I put up an old Impala ram from behind a mimosa thorn. He ran straight for the waggon, and it was not till he was passing within a few feet of it that I could get a decent shot at him. Then I pulled, and caught him half-way down the spine.
Here was evidence that not all aboard the wrecked or foundered Impala had been lost. "Meggs," he cried, "you're the one and only skipper! It must be their signal it is their signal! But which of them? who went under and who escaped! Miss Genevieve? Tom?" "This Mr. Blake?" ventured Meggs. "I take it, he's some relation to your lordship." "No; chum American engineer. Gad! if he went down!
If only I'd not gone off on that shunt to India And they six weeks in these damnable swamps if they won ashore at all! You still believe they had a chance of that?" "Aye. As I explained to your lordship, if the Impala hadn't lost all her boats before she struck, there's a fair probability that the water inside the reefs " "Yes, yes, to be sure!
On rectifying this, another shot quickly put the wounded animal out of pain. Still my day's sport was not yet over. While rambling back through the trees I caught sight of a graceful-looking antelope in the distance, and on cautiously approaching closer saw that it was an impala.
For a couple of hours I poked about without seeing anything that I could get a shot at, but at last, just as I was again within seventy yards of the waggon, I put up an old Impala ram from behind a mimosa thorn. He ran straight for the waggon, and it was not till he was passing within a few feet of it that I could get a decent shot at him.
For a couple of hours I poked about without seeing anything that I could get a shot at, but at last, just as I was again within seventy yards of the waggon, I put up an old Impala ram from behind a mimosa-thorn. He ran straight for the waggon, and it was not till he was passing within a few feet of it that I could get a decent shot at him.
With a wet rifle and nine cartridges he persuaded the natives not only to ferry him across to the Portuguese side, but also to carry him in a "machela," a hammock slung between native porters, from which he shot "impala" for his food.
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