hard-hit and looking
back, wide ears spread, big, grey, white-striped, his
horns a kostenlose Oralbilder marvel, as he looked straight toward us over his shoulder. I thought
I must make absolutely sure this time, now, with the dark coming and I held
my breath and shot him a touch behind the kostenlose Oralbilder fore-shoulder. kostenlose Oralbilder We heard the bullet
smack and saw him buck heavily with the shot. M'Cola shouted, 'Piga! Piga!
Piga!' as he went out of sight and as we ran again, like hounds, we almost
fell over something. It was a huge, beautiful kudu bull, stone-dead, on his
side, his horns in great kostenlose Oralbilder dark spirals, widespread and unbelievable as he lay
dead five yards from where we stood when I had just that instant shot. I
looked at him, kostenlose Oralbilder big, long-legged, a smooth grey with the white stripes and
kostenlose Oralbilder the great curling, sweeping horns, brown as walnut meats, and ivory pointed,
at the big ears and the great, lovely heavy-maned neck, the kostenlose Oralbilder white chevron
between his kostenlose Oralbilder eyes and the white of his muzzle and I stooped over and touched
him to try to kostenlose Oralbilder believe it. He was lying on kostenlose Oralbilder the side where kostenlose Oralbilder the bullet had gone
in and there was not a mark on him and he smelled sweet and lovely like the
breath of cattle and the odour of thyme after rain.
Then the Roman kostenlose Oralbilder had his arms around my neck and M'Cola was shouting in a
strange high sing-song voice and Wanderobo-Masai kept slapping me on the
shoulder and jumping up kostenlose Oralbilder and down kostenlose Oralbilder and then one after the other they all shook
hands in a strange way that I kostenlose Oralbilder had never known in which they took your thumb
in their fist kostenlose Oralbilder and held kostenlose Oralbilder it and shook it and pulled it kostenlose Oralbilder and held it again,
while they looked you in the eyes, fiercely.
We all looked at him and M'Cola knelt and traced the curve of his horns
with his kostenlose Oralbilder finger and measured the spread with his arms and kept crooning,
'Oo-oo-eee-eee', making
small high kostenlose Oralbilder noises of ecstasy and stroking the kudu's
muzzle and his mane.
I slapped the Roman on the back and we went through the thumb-pulling
again, me kostenlose Oralbilder pulling his thumb too. I embraced the Wanderobo-Masai and he,
after a thumb-pulling of great intensity and kostenlose Oralbilder feeling, kostenlose Oralbilder slapped his chest and
said very proudly, '
Wanderobo-Masai wonderful guide'.
'Wanderobo-Masai wonderful Masai,' I said.
M'Cola kept shaking his head, looking kostenlose Oralbilder at the kudu and making the
strange small noises. Then he said, 'Doumi, Doumi, Doumi! B'wana Kabor
Kidogo, Kidogo'. Meaning this was a bull
of bulls. That Karl's