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colour gradually gives place to the latter — till, in a 

 very old male, there is no buff or ochre left except 

 on the legs below the knees. Of the female, Mr. 

 Angas's description is as follows: " Smaller than the 

 male, and without horns ; total length, 6 feet ; nose, 

 to insertion of ear, 10 inches ; length of ear, 6^ 

 inches ; height from forefoot to shoulder, 2 feet 9 

 inches ; tail, i foot 3 inches In length ; becoming 

 very pale on the belly and lower parts and white 

 inside the thighs ; a black dorsal ridge of bristly 

 hair extends from the back of the crown to the tail ; 

 nose black ; the white spots on various parts of the 

 body nearly resembling those of the male, only the 

 white stripes on both sides are more numerous and 

 clearly defined, amounting to twelve or thirteen in 

 number ; tail, rufous above and white below, tipped 

 with black." 



As soon as I had stripped the skins, with the 

 leg -bones still attached, from my two beautiful 

 specimens, I had them carried, together with the 

 skulls, to Gugawi's kraal, on the edge of the bush, 

 and there spent the remainder of the day in prepar- 

 ing them for mounting. Of the meat, which was all 

 brought in, I sent a couple of haunches over to 

 Mr. Wissels, and then, after keeping a small piece 

 for myself, gave the remainder to Gugawl, to 

 divide amongst his people as he thought fit. 



Next morning I was up and out in the bush 

 just as day was breaking, accompanied only by 

 my guide of yesterday and Longman, who, how- 

 ever, kept some distance behind, In order to allow 

 my guide and myself to approach our game as 

 noiselessly as possible. We had been creeping 

 about in the dense jungle for some three hours 

 without having seen anything, although there was 

 a good deal of fresh spoor about, and twice we 

 had heard inyalas dash away through the bush 

 without getting a sight of them, when suddenly 



