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by a waterhole filled by a little spring. No grass & everything is filled with sand. We have a shorter day tomorrow.
A strange Xmas.
[[underlined]] Dec 26. (Boxing day) [[/underlined]]
A very hot & dusty march about 15 miles and some very rough going over awful rocks & loose stones & up & down some bad hills. Off at 6 am. we reached camp about Midday & the tail of the Safari was in an hour & a half later.
We each shot a nice Grant on the way. Went out in the evening & ^[[insertion]] I [[/insertion]] was stalking some Grant when Bates ran out from camp to say he saw an Eland by itself some way away. I went off as hard as I could & the Eland turned out to be 2 oryx Bulls. I got in as close as I could about 450 - 500 yards. There was no cover nearer & one of them looked at me so fixedly, I thought he saw me, so I determined to try from where I was. It was too dark to see the foresight clearly, but I saw my first shot strike just over his shoulder