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The common tastes and interests of the two hunters now allied 

 in Africa afford them ideal companionship and, what is more, are 

 likely to insure markedly to the advancement of the collections of 

 specimens which Colonel Roosevelt hopes to bring home with 

 him, 



Mr. Selous' presence is largely due to the fact that Colonel 

 Roosevelt, in his quest for the extremely rare inyala antelope, has 

 hopes that the exceptional experience and knowledge of his ally 

 will bring him within reach of it; and that, in fact, is one of the 

 prime reasons why Mr. Selous consented to take the field again with 

 his friend. 



The story Mr. Selous tells of his own search for that rare and 

 beautiful antelope equals anything Haggard ever imagined of Qua- 

 termain, and, most interesting of all, it actually happened to him 

 then, just as, if his luck hold good again, may in like manner happen 

 to Colonel Roosevelt. 



WOMEN THE ONLY LABOR OBTAINABLE. 



Arriving at Laurenco Marques, on Delagoa bay, in September, 

 1896, Mr. Selous sailed up the Maputa river to Amatongaland, 

 where, at the junction of the Usutu and Pongolo rivers, the Maputa 

 proper begins. Here, at the trading store of Mr. Wissels, he saw 

 several horns and skins of inyala, evidently recently killed. After 

 several days' journey, leading a caravan of native women carriers, 

 the only labor obtainable, he came upon the fresh spoor, or tracks, 

 of what were undoubtedly inyala. 



He had crept about in the bush for an hour when at the further 

 side of a glade, he beheld an inyala doe. 



" I could see no other animal near her," Mr. Selous states, 

 " and as I required two specimens of inyala does, the one for the 

 British and the other for the South African Museum, I lost no time 

 in firing at the animal in question, which I saw drop instantly at the 

 first shot. 



" But even as she did so, there appeared in her place, or very 

 close to where she had stood, a great, black, shaggy form, which, 

 indistinctly as I could see it in the deep shadows of the bush, I 



