Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



Two of these bushbuck were shot on the 

 escarpment overhanging Lake Albert near a 

 place called Tonio, and the other at another 

 place some sixty miles away nearer Bombo, on 

 the banks of the Myanja river. Their skins are 

 very light in colour, with the string-marks scarcely 

 showing. Are they the " bor'' of the Nile, or the 

 '' dectila''' of Abyssinia? Or is it that the good 

 feeding that they obtain in this part of the world 

 enables them to develop finer horns, even as the 

 well-fed Unyoro elephant carries more massive 

 tusks than the elephant found in the vicinity 

 of the Semliki river ? But the question is, 

 What are they ? In either case my friend has got 

 some records, as I never saw such massive heads, 

 but it does not seem possible to class them under 

 either sub-species. And there are plenty more 

 in those districts waiting to be shot by the 

 intending visitor ! 



I append a photograph of the heads and skins 

 of two of these big fellows, shown against a 

 29-inch white rhino horn, to give an idea of 

 their length and thickness ; also a photograph of 

 bushbuck I shot at Bor on the Nile. 



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