CHAPTER XII 



A JOURNEY TO AMATONGALAND IN SEARCH 

 OF INYALA 



The inyala, a rare and beautiful animal — Seldom shot by English- 

 men — Account of, by Mr. Baldwin — Further observations of, 

 by the Hon. W. H. Drummond — Inyala- shooting and fever 

 almost synonymous — Distribution of the inyala — Curious ante- 

 lope shot by Captain Faulkner — Start on journey in search of 

 inyalas — Reach Delagoa Bay — Meet Mr, Wissels — Voyage to 

 the Maputa river — Depredations of locusts — Elephants still 

 found in the Matuta district — A quick run up the river — Reach 

 Bella Vista — Talk with Portuguese officer — Hippopotamuses 

 seen — Change of weather — Longman engages four lady porters 

 — Start for Mr. Wissels's station — Sleep at Amatonga kraal — 

 Description of people — Cross the Maputa river — Reedbuck 

 shot — Rainy weather — Reach Mr. Wissels's station. 



Of all the various species of antelopes still to be 

 found in the southern portion of the great African 

 continent, the inyala is perhaps at once the most 

 beautiful and the least known to naturalists and 

 sportsmen. This handsome animal, although it had 

 been previously shot by some few Boer hunters, 

 was first described and brought to the notice of 

 European naturalists by Mr. Douglas Angas, by 

 whom it was named Tragelaphus angasi, or Angas's 

 bushbuck, though it is more generally known at 

 the present day by its native Zulu name of inyala. 



Inyala horns are often met with in collections, 

 but such trophies, it will be found, have almost 

 invariably been obtained from the natives, few 



