Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



for my pains, not a sign of them did I see when 

 I first dared to look up from the cover of a bush 

 some two hundred yards distant from where they 

 had been feeding. They had apparently dis- 

 appeared into thin air. My orderlies knew me 

 well enough to keep out of sight, so it couldn't 

 have been their fault. 



The next tiang I saw was a singleton, more than 

 three-quarters of a mile away. I thought it was 

 no use beginning to stalk before I had reached 

 a good patch of bush another four hundred yards 

 on, as it was only with the aid of glasses that I 

 had made him out at all. Imagine my disgust 

 when after moving only twenty yards — rather 

 across him I admit — he bolted like a shot ; I 

 never set eyes on him again that day. This put 

 me so much on my mettle to secure a specimen 

 that I gave up all idea of buffalo, with which the 

 place crawled, as I had shot them before else- 

 where, and devoted all my time and energies to 

 tiang. I was doomed to disappointment there, 

 and departed much incensed against the wily 

 beast, and vowing vengeance against any of his 

 clan that I might meet in the hereafter. How- 

 ever, a kindly fate served me later. 



Tiang are wilder in the Sudan than their 

 cousins in Uofanda because there is less cover in 

 the former than in the bush land of the latter 

 country. But to whatever branch of the genus 

 they may belong, a herd of tiang never settle 



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