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merly very abundant. Some excellent specimens 

 have been obtained also at different times from 

 various rivers of South -East Africa the Sabi, 

 Nuanetsi, Pungwe, and others and from Mashona- 

 land, Zululand, and the Lake Ngami country. A 

 good average pair of horns will measure from 28 to 

 33 inches over the curve ; the finest yet recorded l 

 measure respectively 36^ and 36^ inches. These 

 came from Delagoa Bay and " South Africa." At 

 the present time the waterbuck is first met with in 

 South Africa on the lower reaches of the Limpopo 

 river, where, however, it is becoming scarce. Thence, 

 northward, it has a very extensive range through 

 Nyasaland and East Africa as far as the Webbe 

 (river) Shebeyli in Somaliland. It is found also on 

 the Botletli, Chobi, Okavango, and other systems 

 connected with Lake Ngami. The flesh is exces- 

 sively coarse and unpalatable, and is seldom touched 

 by Europeans. Waterbuck have a strong and char- 

 acteristic odour, and the hunter may often wind them, 

 or tell from their scent that they have only lately 

 quitted the spot he stands in. The hide of this 

 antelope is in much request among the Boers for 

 making ve/schoens, the high-low shoes of home-tanned 

 leather which most back-country Afrikander Dutch 

 still affect. The Boers, by the way, call this buck 

 Kring-gaat. Native names are in Bechuana, Tum- 

 ogha ; Matabele, Sidumuga ; Makalaka, Ee-tumuha ; 

 Masarwa, Gwelung-gweke ; Barotse, M ' dongoma or 

 Matutwi ; Swahili, Koru ; Adone (Webbe Shebeyli 



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