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There is no more beautiful and fascinating sight than that of a troop of impala or springbuck really on the move and jumping in earnest.

Some of the officers made an effort to get up hunting parties, and succeeded in bagging a few springbuck, but their expeditions were fraught with even more risk to themselves than to their quarry.

The springbuck were too far away to fire at; probabilities would have been too much in favour of a miss.

It seems at such times as if all the springbucks in the Desert were suddenly smitten by a mad desire to collect and dash towards a certain point.

When Outa was young he was nearly killed by a troop of springbucks, and he thought, ‘No, not toch trampled to death; to be carried down the river is better.’