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one or more small steamboats and its northeast shore is reached, at 

 Port Florence, by the Uganda Railway. 



The Colonel and party arrived at Kampala December 21, and 

 was received by Sub-Commissioner K. A. Knowles. The ex-Presi- 

 dent came by motor car from Entebbe and the others arrived on the 

 steamer. In the afternoon they visited the Alill Hill Mission. 



The day following Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit were out 

 early hunting sitatunga, a rare species of antelope. 



This Vvas only a start for a busy day. Later in the forenoon 

 the Colonel called upon Mother Paul, the American Mother 

 Superior of the convent, visited the Catholic mission; helped to 

 dedicate a wing that had recently been added to the church mission 

 society's hospital, and lunched with Bishop Hanlon. In the after- 

 noon the Colonel received King Daudi Chwa of Uganda, and with 

 the latter attended a dinner given by F. A. Knowles, At night the 

 expedition pitched camp at a site provided for it near the church 

 mission society's headquarters. 



THE SITATUNGA, OR "HARNESSED" ANTELOPE. 



The sitatunga, which is more familiarly known by its African 

 name, nakong, is one of the " harnessed " antelopes of South- 

 Central and East Africa. It is also called " spake's " antelope. It 

 is peculiar for its perfectly uniform grayish color, when mature. 

 It formerly gathered in herds, and was one of the most highly prized 

 of the smaller species of antelopes. 



Some one remarked long ago that when the languages were 

 made up the odds and ends left over were gathered up and thrown 

 together to make English. The early zoologists, looking over the 

 whole herd of split-hoofed, hollow-horned, cud-chewing animals, 

 encountered but little difficulty in making up the families of the 

 oxen, the sheep and the goats; after they had finished this work all 

 the hollow-horned ruminants that were left over were assigned to 

 a great ill-assorted assemblage and labeled " antelopes." Thus 

 the old genus antelope became a kind of zoological refuge for the 

 destitute until it came to contain nearly four times as many species 

 as all the other hollow-horned ruminants together. 



