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The Antelopes of East Africa 



The old bucks gradually lose the beautiful brown colouring 

 and the white markings, and grow darker and darker as 

 they increase in age. The natives maintain that this 

 antelope, when wounded, sometimes shows itself aggres- 

 sive and dangerous. I found sometimes that mortally 

 wounded bushbucks uttered a deep moan like a roebuck. 

 Some of the tribes disdain the bushbuck as food. In 

 March, near Arusha Chini, I noticed these antelopes 

 with tiny calves. On account of their very dense haunts, 

 I unfortunately failed to obtain a useful negative. 



An abundance of splendid antelope types entices the 

 huntsman to delightful stalking expeditions in the Dark 

 Continent. But unquestionably that most coveted trophy 

 of the German sportsman, the antlers of the chief stag 

 of the herd, is for ever denied him here ! However, he 

 is indemnitied for this by the number of horn-bearing 

 animals that he will find ; and even in these days there 

 are many marsh and desert trophies worth trying for ; and 

 there is no knowing but he may come upon some strange 

 denizen of the primeval forest the very existence of which 

 is unsuspected ! 



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