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quality that the natives prize it for wearing almost more 

 then any other of the antelope tribe. The only food it 

 would eat were the tops of the tall papyrus rushes ; but 

 though it ate and drank freely, and lay down very 

 quietly, it always charged with ferocity any person who 

 went near it." 



The Enjobe is about the size of a donkey. The male has 

 beautiful horns, long and spirally twisted, with almost 

 translucent tips ; the females are hornless. The colour 

 varies considerably ; the young males are bright foxy 

 red, marked with white, adult males are darker brown, 

 but I have seen an adult female of the same colour, 

 although typically they are more brightly coloured like 

 the young male. 



This antelope with its elongate hooves is well known to 

 haunt swamps for which its deeply cleft feet are suitable, 

 in the same manner as are those of the reindeer for snow 

 or of the camel for sand. 



It is mentioned in books as spending its days immersed 

 in water among papyrus, etc., and is apparently considered 

 as an animal confined to swamps. On the islands, however, 

 it is a creature of different habits, possibly owing to the 

 entire absence of enemies, human or otherwise, from which 

 on the mainland it takes refuge in swamps. Indeed, it now 

 behaves much like its close ally the bushbuck, called 

 " Engabi " by the natives. On some of the islands which 

 it inhabits there are no papyrus swamps, and during the 

 day time I often disturbed Enjobe from their resting 

 places in the forest belt near the water. 



In the evening they could be seen coming out on to the 

 open grass covered spaces and browsing on bushes, 

 especially " Oluzibaziba," the Euphorbiaceous Alchornea 

 chordata, of which they eat the young tips. 



The bushbuck may well have had similar habits on the 

 larger islands in former days until it was exterminated. 

 The Situtunga, on the other hand, could have taken refuge 



