CHAP. XII A TOUGH OLD SPORTSMAN 223 



living Englishmen having actually shot this very- 

 local and retiring animal ; whilst, as far as I am 

 aware, but two of these have, since Angas's first 

 description, given us any information concerning 

 its haunts and habits. 



That tough old sportsman the late Mr. William 

 Charles Baldwin met with the inyala on his first 

 visit to Amatongaland in 1854. He writes : 



Hearing from the Kaffirs that there were inyalas in 

 the bush, I sallied out, but without success, until nearly 

 sunset, when, as I was returning home, the Amatongas 

 showed me two inyalas feeding, the first I had ever seen. 

 I succeeded in bagging the stag, a most beautiful dark 

 silver-grey buck, with long mane and very long hair 

 like a goat. He is of the bushbuck species, but on a 

 much larger scale than the inkonka of the colony, with 

 long spiral horns, tanned legs, very long hair on his 

 breast and quarters — a beautiful animal, weighing from 

 250 lbs. to 300 lbs., and very fierce when wounded. 

 They inhabit the coast from this to Delagoa Bay, and 

 are numerous. The does are often to be seen in large 

 herds, and are likewise very beautiful, resembling a 

 fallow deer, but are of a much darker red, striped and 

 spotted with white. They have no horns, and are half 

 the size of the stag ; and nowhere else in Africa have 

 I met with them. 



Baldwin was evidently very much struck with 

 the beauty of these antelopes, for, referring to the 

 first of the species which he shot, he says : " When 

 I at last secured him I thought I should never 

 sufificiently admire him." On another occasion he 

 says : '' I wounded an inyala doe, and had a long 

 chase after her, but eventually lost her. They are 

 wild and wary, and it requires the greatest caution 

 to get a shot at them." 



The only other author, besides Angas and 



