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across. On some of the islands of Victoria Nyanza, 

 however, these buck are found in great plenty, and 

 can be more easily shot. In a couple of drives on 

 one of the Sesse islands (Victoria Nyanza Lake), 

 Mr. Ernest Gedge and Major Williams, R.A., shot 

 no less than twenty - four head. The Chobi and 

 Okavango country, parts of Congoland and Benguela, 

 Barotseland, Lakes Bangweolo and Mweru, British 

 Central Africa, portions of East Africa, and the 

 Victoria Nyanza region, may be cited as the haunts 

 of these curious antelopes. In addition to the name 

 " Water Koodoo," the Trek-Boers sometimes call 

 this animal the " Water - schaa-p " (water -sheep). 

 Native names are Situtunga or Puvu/a of the Barotse, 

 Chobi, and Zambesi tribes ; Nakong of the Batauana 

 at Lake Ngami ; Zowe of Chilala and Chibisa 

 countries, East Africa ; Chobe or Njobe of the 

 Waganda (Uganda). 



The Bushbuck (Tragelaphus scrip tus} is found in 

 varying forms all over Africa, from the southern 

 shores of Cape Colony to Abyssinia. This first-rate 

 little sporting antelope has always been a favourite 

 with gunners, and although, as its name implies, it is 

 a habitant of thick bush, it can be nearly always 

 secured with care, judgment, and some knowledge of 

 its habits. In the eastern portion of Cape Colony and 

 in Kaffraria and Natal, periodical drives are made, and, 

 the sportsmen being stationed at convenient openings 

 in the bush, the buck are driven up to them by a line 

 of Kaffirs. Big bags are in this way often made. On 

 these occasions shot-guns and buck-shot are invariably 



