Far away in the dense jungles the ringing sound is heard, as the answering females return the salute and slowly approach the place of rendezvous.

One by one their dark forms emerge from the thorny coverts and loom large upon the green but distant shores, and they increase their pace when they view the coveted water, and belly-deep enjoy their evening draught.
The graceful axis in dense herds quit the screening jungle and also seek the plain.

The short, shrill barks of answering bucks sound clearly across the surface of the lake, and indistinct specks begin to appear on the edge of the more distant forests.

Now black patches are clotted about the plain; now larger objects, some single and some in herds, make toward the water.

The telescope distinguishes the vast herds of hogs busy in upturning the soil in search of roots, and the ungainly buffaloes, some in herds and others single bulls, all gathering at the hour of sunset toward the water.