My neck was nearly broken from looking forward while on my hands and knees, and it was nearly an hour of creeping progress that I spent while stalking that topi.
When I got within two hundred and fifty yards, and was just ready to take a careful aim, with an ant-hill as a rest, a kongoni somewhere gave the alarm, and away went the topi, safe and sound but badly scared.

The kongoni went a little way off and then turned and grinned broadly.

I was momentarily tempted to shoot him, but on second thought I realized that he had acted nobly from the animal point of view, so I forgave him.
[Drawing: _Outward Bound--Reading Your Thoughts--Concluding your Intentions Are Hostile_] The kongoni seems to be gifted with a clairvoyant instinct.

He knows when you don't want to shoot him and when you do.

If you start out in the morning with no hostile intentions toward him he will allow you to approach to within a short distance.