He resolved, therefore, to try this expedient, and secure an antelope if possible.
Cautioning his brothers to remain quiet, he took up one of the red blankets that lay near.

He had already cut a long forked sapling, and sharpened it at one end with his knife.

He now spread out the blanket, holding it up before him; and, with his rifle in one hand, and the sapling in the other, he passed out of the willows into the open ground--keeping the blanket between him and the animals, so that his body was completely hidden from them.

In this way he advanced a few paces, walking in a bent attitude, until he had attracted the attention of the antelopes.

He then stuck the sapling firmly in the ground, hung the blanket upon its forks, and knelt down behind it.
An object so odd-looking, both as regarded form and colour, at once excited the curiosity of the herd.