With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



the particular character has not as yet, to my knowledge, 

 been at all thoroughly investigated. These glands 

 tlilfil the purpose of secreting a certain scent, which 

 makes it easier for the animals to find one another 

 in the wilderness. This antelope does not offer any 

 particular temptation to the sportsman, for its flat horns 

 form no very coveted trophy. The hartebeests can 

 live for a long time without water, and the remark- 

 able power that many African ruminants have of exist- 

 ing with very little liquid tood is thus again strikingly 

 exemplified. 



In the districts drained by the Victoria Nyanza I 

 became acquainted, some years ago, with two other 

 beautiful species of hartebeests — namely, the tiang {^Daina- 

 /iscus ji Die 111) and Jackson's hartebeest [Bnbalis Jackson i). 

 In 1897 I also succeeded in shooting in British East 

 Africa a type of hartebeest (Bnbalis neunninui) which 

 was then known by only two or three examples. At 

 that time, alas ! I had not conceived my plan of taking 

 photographs of African wild beasts. 



The beautiful and graceful impalla-antelope (the 

 " swalla " of the caravan-carriers), the male specimens of 

 which carry fine lyre-shaped, wide-spreading horns, is 

 found in small groups, and also in large herds of as many 

 as two hundred, about the bushy, thinly wooded districts, 

 but never on the plain. The lovely wild creatures, if 

 shot at, alter their course over and over again with 

 great rapidity, so that they are continually meeting, 

 passing, crossing one another — a vision of enchanting 

 grace in the sun-drenched landscape ! Agility, grace, 



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