They were all in motion, some browsing along, while hundreds of them were constantly bounding up into the air full ten feet high, and leaping a-top of each other.

I assure you all it was tone of the strangest sights I ever beheld, and one of the pleasantest too; for I knew that the creatures that covered the plain, instead of being fierce wild beasts, were nothing but graceful and beautiful little gazelles.
"My first thought was to get near them, and have a shot; and I was about to start off over the plain, when I perceived that the antelopes were coming towards me.

I saw that they were approaching with considerable rapidity; and if I only remained where I was, they would save me the trouble of stalking in upon them.

I lay down behind a bush and waited.
"I had not very long to wait.

In less than a quarter of an hour the foremost of the herd drew near, and in five minutes more a score of them were within shot.
"I did not fire for some time.