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Against the hillside, so I hastily fired again a little lower & hit him as I found after rather high in the shoulder. He staggered round and I fired again but missed him. However he lay down & I walked him up & knocked him over at about 50 yards as he attempted to make off.
It was close on 6 o'clock, so it was a very successful shot in a bad light. He turned out to be a fringe eared oryx (I had not shot or seen one last year) and his horns go just 30 inches.
After 7 when we got back to camp. Before I went to bed I had drunk 10 cups of tea & 3 or 4 mugs of lime juice & muddy water & my mouth was still like a lime-kiln. I never saw such a desert of a country & the sun beaks down on the dry & dusty ground. Fortunately we had a good deal of cloud for our trek. The water is old rain water left in a cleft in the rocks.
Saw a good deal of game during the day including Giraffe, Eland, Oryx.