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BUSHBUCK 



TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPT US BOR 

 TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS DECULA 



Sudanese : Abenaber 

 Bari: Cabo 



FOR a long time I believed that the bush- 

 buck was confined to the hills. So he 

 is to a great extent, but by no means 

 entirely. 

 Let me now relate how I stole a march on my 

 companions on my return journey up the Nile to 

 Uganda. We arranged one evening to stop and 

 shoot next day at Gameiza, where we were going 

 to take wood on board. Next morning I woke up 

 to find that the boat had stopped, and on seeing 

 my companions fast asleep, I quietly hurried on 

 my clothes and slipped off to get ahead of them ; 

 as some four or five people tramping round the 

 countryside, loosing off right and left, spells no 

 sport for anyone. 



Imagine my surprise when the skipper said 

 we were just off for Gameiza, that the place 

 where we then were was not Gameiza, as I had 

 thought, but Malik Bor, a mission station. Not 



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