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Livingstone's antelope, whose local name is ''schlen- 

 garn," in a patch of thich bush. The country was 

 looking fresh and green, with the sprouting grass 

 after the recent heavy rains ; and hundreds of 

 beetles were now running over the sand, which was 

 a good deal more than warm. Indeed, it was so 

 hot that I think a baboon would have hesitated to 

 sit down on it. 



But my weary tramp came to an end at last, and 

 early on the morning of October 7 I crossed the 

 Bay of Delagoa to the town of Lourengo Marques, 

 and, thanks to the kind assistance of Mr. Edixhoven, 

 got all my specimens packed and conveyed on 

 board the Pembroke Castle the same day, for trans- 

 port to England, where they duly arrived in very 

 good order. 



The same evening I left Delagoa Bay by train 

 for the Transvaal, and finally reached Kimberley 

 on October 10. Here I had a slight attack of 

 malarial fever — a matter of a few hours only — suc- 

 ceeded by two more in Cape Town, and a final 

 attack on board ship on my way to England. But 

 these attacks were very slight and only lasted for 

 a few hours at a time, and I can only say, with 

 Drummond, that ample amends have been made 

 for any little inconveniences I may have suffered, 

 by the pleasure of the thought that I have not only 

 added a pair of inyala heads to my own private 

 collection, but have also enriched our National 

 Museum of Natural History with two beautiful 

 specimens of this rare and handsome antelope. 



