648 THE RIET-BOK, OR INGHALLA. 
The most practised eyes are required to discover this buck in the bush, as its colour 
is so similar to the cloom of the underwood that if it did not shake the branches in its 
progress it would be scarcely possible to see it. 
Long after the sportsman has become sufliciently acquainted with bush-craft to secure 
with certainty one or two red bucks during a day’s stalking, he would still be unable to 
bag the little Blue Buck. 
Several times when I was with a Kaffir, who possessed eyes like those of an eagle, 
he would point, and with ereat excitement say, ‘There goes a Blue-buck! there he is! 
there, there !’? but it was of no use to me, I would strain my eyes and look to the spots 
pointed out, but could see no buck; and it was a considerable time before my sight 
became sufficiently quick to enable me to drop this little Antelope with any certainty.”— 
From Captain Drayson’s MS. 
This animal must not be mistaken for the blau-bok (gocerus leucopheus), which will 
be mentioned and figured on a succeeding page. Although the two Antelopes are entirely 
distinct, even in external aspect, they have often been confused together in consequence 
of the Dutch name, Blau-bokje, having been given to both of them on account of the 
colour of their coat. 
RIET-BOK, OR INGHALLA.—Eledtragus arundindceus. 
Passtnc by several interesting animals, for whose biography there is no space, we 
arrive at another of the South African Antelopes, the Riet-bok, or Reed-buck. 
“ This fine and handsome Antelope,” writes Captain Drayson, “is found, as his name 
implies, principally among reeds or long grass. Few animals give the sportsman such a 
chance as the Riet-bok, for he usually lies concealed in the reeds or long grass until he is 
nearly trodden on, and when he does break away, he moves at a steady gallop for a short 
distance, and then stops to turn and look at his pursuers. As though to compensate for 
this incautious proceeding, the Riet-bok is gifted with a marvellous tenacity of life, and 
will frequently gallop very freely after a bullet has passed through his body. In very 
many cases his escape is but temporary, as he seeks some retired kloof in which he dies 
by inches, or his career is terminated during the night by a pack of hungry hyenas, who 
