134 SPORT IN THE EASTERN SUDAN 



A sentry left by me opposite said that our operations 

 turned out a good koodoo, and two bushbuck passed 

 where I located the butt. Beat out island at midday. 

 Nothing showed but a small waterbuck, passing at 

 full speed about 50 yards from the butt. In the 

 evening I prospected up-stream along the left bank, 

 and got a shot at rather over 100 yards at a bushbuck, 

 scoring a miss. On the way home I saw what may 

 have been a good koodoo come to the island, but too 

 late to be of any use. 



January *2Qth. Beat out island with camels in 

 early morning, and secured a bushbuck of 12 inches, 

 unluckily with the tip of one horn broken. He passed 

 within 25 yards of my butt at a slow walk in the 

 middle of the beat, and fell to the first shot, having 

 his throat cut some half-hour after he was dead. It 

 being still early, I decided to reconnoitre the left 

 bank of the Settit. A female koodoo was seen as 

 soon as we got on to the high ground, and next we 

 saw two large horned antelopes in the meshra at the 

 top of the island some three-quarters of a mile off. 

 A stiffish piece of walking at a good pace, in the 

 course of which we saw another female koodoo, 

 brought us within some 200 yards of these antelopes, 

 which proved to be roan. This being my first intro- 

 duction to roan, unless, as I now believe, the big 

 antelope at Kituit was one, and not a waterbuck, I 

 was by no means sure either of the sex or of the size 



