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Ee-pennee. The Basutos call it Impulupudi, the 

 Swazis Ingaina, the Swahilis Is hah. 



A slightly varying form of this antelope, known 

 as Neumann's steenbok, is found in East Africa, 

 chiefly about Kilimanjaro. 



THE KLIPSPRINGER 



This most active and hardy little mountain-dweller 

 is well known to sportsmen in many parts of Africa, 

 occurring as it does from the mountains about the 

 Cape to Somaliland and Abyssinia. It has been well 

 styled the chamois of Africa, and, in its love of 

 mountain solitudes and its marvellous powers of 

 leaping and climbing the most impossible-looking 

 cliffs and precipices, it is scarcely to be surpassed by 

 any animal in the world. I have always had a 

 peculiar affection for the chase of this handsome 

 little mountain buck. It was the first antelope I ever 

 shot at with a rifle. It is years ago, but I remember 

 the incident perfectly well in all its details. I had 

 just arrived in Cape Colony, and was stalking in the 

 wild, mountainous region of the Witberg, between 

 Graaff Reinet and the sea. We put up three klip- 

 springers out of some bush, half-way up a mountain, 

 and one of these I followed. Klipspringers are not 

 easy shooting when on the move, racing up a stony 

 mountain-side, dodging through bush, or leaping 

 from one giddy pinnacle of rock to another. But 

 they have a common, and to them fatal habit of 

 stopping, on some high rock or other vantage coign, 



