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CHAPTER XXII. 



RHINOCEROS AND WILD BUFFALO HUNTING 

 ALONG THE CASHAN MOUNTAINS. 



Leaving the waggons to proceed to the ground 

 where our operations against the elephants were to 

 commence, I went with 'Lingap to the carcass of 

 the antelope I concealed yesterday, near which I 

 killed two females of the same species. I believe I 

 ntuiy with safety assert that I am the only European 

 that ever shot a water-buck. This noble antelope 

 is about the size of an ass, and of somewhat browner 

 colour. The hair is coarse, like that of the Indian 

 Rusa stag, and in.texture resembles split whalebone. 

 The appearance of the male animal is stately ; the 

 eyes are large and brilliant ; the horns ponderous 

 and beetling, three feet in length, white, ringed, 

 and placed almost perpendicularly on the head, the 

 points being curved to the front. A mane encircles 

 the neck, and an elliptical white band the tail, 

 which is tufted at the extremity. The female is 

 similar, but hornless, and rather smaller. The flesh 

 of both is coarse, and so highly ill savoured that 

 even savages are unable to eat it. On cutting off 

 the head, the effluvia literally drove me from the 

 spot. Mr. Steedman had the merit a few years 

 ago of bringing this antelope under the observation 



