With Flashli,^-ht and Rifle ^. 



Masai highlands proper the first kind is not to be found ; 

 on the contrary, a strip of coastdine, stretching barely one 

 hundred kilometres inland, along the Mombasa-Tanga- 

 Panoani-Sadaani boundary, is the chief habitat of this 

 splendid antelope. We find kindred types in the south of 

 the country, in riverless districts. I have found quantities 

 of fresh horns among the dealers in Zanzibar, all, according 

 to their account, coming from German territory ; and, 

 more authentically, it seems to be established by the 

 experiences of various travellers, that the sable antelope 

 does not seldom occur in the coast districts. In the 

 Kilimanjaro country the " palla halla" is entirely missing. 

 It was in the Ngare-Dobash district that I first saw the 

 kindred roan antelope {^Hippotragits cqiiiuiis). which, later 

 on, I had again the opportun.ity of observing not tar from 

 the Kikumbulia provinces. 



I do not believe it is the case that the hartebeest was 

 to be found in the Kilimanjaro country before the time 

 of the rinderpest ; at any rate, it can only have occurred 

 there in very small numbers. 



To obtain photographs of these glorious roan ante- 

 lopes in their native freedom would be an enterprise 

 worthy of any amount of endurance. Unfortunately I was 

 not able to undertake it. 



But, in compensation. I cannot say how many times I 

 came upon a type as beautiful as it is timid — the fringe- 

 eared oryx {^0]-yx ca/Iotis), which inhabits chiefly the 

 driest parts of the desert, as far as possible trom water. 

 This type, numerously represented in Africa and Arabia, 

 reaches its highest development in the gemsbok {Oryx 



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