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escape and took refuge in a small bush, where I easily- 

 caught him — a dear little fluffy beast, all head and tail, 

 that sat easily on the palm of my hand. Unfortunately 

 for him the bush was occupied by a species of very power- 

 fully biting ant, and when I got him the poor little monkey 

 was being severely bitten by the ants deeply embedded 

 in his fur. So I took him on my knee and soothed him 

 while I picked out the ants with forceps, the youngster 

 sitting quietly as if my attempts at the " cuddling noise " 

 were quite intelligible. His parents and friends on the 

 neighbouring trees were naturally much alarmed for his 

 safety, and danced up and down in impotent rage, with 

 shrieks of defiance that could plainly be interpreted as 

 ** Hurt him if you dare ! " When I had freed him from 

 the ants and smoothed him down, I showed him his friends 

 on the trees and put him down in the grass ; he ran off 

 more or less in the right direction, and I could see him 

 thoroughly overhauled by his parents, anxious to see 

 what damage had been inflicted, and then conveyed by 

 the whole party into the forest. These very young 

 monkeys are carried about beneath the belly of the mother, 

 their limbs embracing her body, and hands and feet firmly 

 grasping the hair on her back. 



The Sitittunga. 



The only antelope on the islands which I visited is the 

 Situtunga {Limnotragus or Tragelaphus spekei), known to 

 the natives of the islands as " Enjobe." This interesting 

 buck was discovered by J. H. Speke in 1862 in the Karagwe 

 district, south of the Kagera river. He gives it the native 

 name of " Nzoe " and says of it : "It proved to be closely 

 allied to a water-boc found by Livingstone on the Ngami 

 Lake, but instead of being striped was very faintly 

 spotted, and so long were its toes it could hardly walk on 

 the dry ground ; whilst its coat, also well adapted to the 

 moist element it lived in, was long, and of such excellent 



