A Shooting Trip in Northwestern Rhodesia 



a lion had tried to take one of the lead oxen as he 

 lay sleeping fastened to the trek chain, and he was 

 badly clawed about the head and neck. It must 

 have been either a very old and feeble lion or a 

 young one, unskilled in this method of slaughter; 

 but as the ground was baked very hard, there were 

 no tracks to tell what size of a beast he was. While 

 in the kudu country I shot a couple of Crawshay 

 waterbuck, both having good heads. 



Of course, I was very anxious to get a situtunga 

 an antelope seldom shot by white men. Inhab- 

 iting as it does the dense reedy swamps of the 

 rivers, it is chiefly killed by the natives during the 

 floods, when it is speared swimming from island 

 to island. When word was brought that a situ- 

 tunga had been seen in a large tract of reeds some 

 distance inland, we at once rode over, only to 

 find that we were just too late, the buck having 

 been driven out by burning the now dry reeds and 

 pulled down by dogs. In fact, much to our dis- 

 appointment, we met the natives bringing in the 

 head, which I bought for a few yards of cloth. As 

 my time was up, we trekked back to Kalomo, hav- 

 ing shot good specimens of eland, buffalo, roan, 

 sable, wildebeest, waterbuck, both common and 

 Crawshay's, Lichtenstein's hartebeest, bushbuck, 

 letchwi, puku, oribi and duiker. 



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