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Eland. I fired at him through some bushes & hit him as I afterwards found through the fleshy part of his neck - a bad shot. Away he went & we followed as soon as he stopped but he went off again long before we got near him. We found his spoor [[strikethrough]] I a [[/strikethrough]] I went after him. Fortunately he went rather towards camp, for I followed him for a couple of hours as hard as I could go before I came up with him. He would not then let me come within 500 yards, so I eventually lay down & gave him one at that range with my manlicher & hit him in the right spot killing him stone dead. A satisfactory ending after a bad initial shot. A good head, but not so good as C's yesterday which I think was an exceptional one. He is a very old Bull, & had probably been turned out of his herd by a younger & stronger.
Got back to camp at 2 pm, & had been going hard most of the time since 5.30 am.
Bates had been out & shot some Zebra near C's giraffe & we intend having a regular

Transcription Notes:
RW - Manlicher or Maulicher? (Several occurrences in later pages). Both appear to be types of guns, and a google books search for "maulicher" produces a reference that looks like "manlicher"! http://books.google.com/books?id=RGEZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP318&lpg=PP318&dq=maulicher&source=bl&ots=0pTcYoMiWE&sig=3NwjA-SRjBGaNbeqBYvrpR8h4V0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ned9VK_mKdWEyQTq1oG4BQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=maulicher&f=false