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Lukanga river, where I shot a fine lechwe ram, an 

 antelope that I did not expect to find in this part 

 of Africa ; it was, however, identical in every respect 

 with the lechwes I have shot on the river Chobe, 

 The Situtunga antelope [Tnige/ap/ius Spekii) is also 

 found in the swamps of the Lukanga ; the natives 

 here call it " n'zobe " ; at Lake Bengweolo, accord- 

 ing to Dr. Livingstone, it is called "n'zoe." On 

 returning, I found Owen much worse ; he had a bad 

 attack of fever, 



January Sth. — Owen very bad ; he had lost all 

 power in his limbs. I did not know how it would 

 end, but feared that it would put a stop to all our 

 elephant-hunting and prospecting projects. This is 

 a dreadful country to be sick in — nothing to eat, and 

 hundreds of miles from the nearest white man. The 

 mosquitoes were in incredible numbers ; luckily, 

 Owen had his mosquito net with him. I, having 

 left mine behind at the Zambesi, suffered horribly 

 on the two previous nights, never having been able 

 to close an eye ; to-day, however, I made myself a 

 net of salampore, which I thought would answer. 



January 9///. — My mosquito net answered 

 capitally, and I arose next morning after a refreshing 

 night's sleep, the first I had had for five nights. 

 Went down to the Lukanga river again to look 

 for lechwes, of which I at last spied a large herd, 

 and by dint of a great deal of creeping and crawling 

 through a boggy marsh, the water often up to my 

 knees, I at last got pretty close to them. Whilst 

 trying, however, to stalk a fine old ram feeding by 

 himself, I disturbed some of the ewes, and they all 

 ran. They soon stopped, however, to look round, 

 and I got three shots into them, standing pretty 

 thickly, killing two and wounding two more ; one 



