THE STORY OF AN OUTING 



RAILWAY STATION AND FRUIT-STAND 



of eastern Central Africa was unfolded to our admiring 

 gaze in a wonderful, natural panorama; the car-window 

 gave us visage, and Dame Nature, with wonderful pro- 

 fusion, threw her fauna upon the screen. Congoni, or 

 hartebeests, were the most numerous and are the swiftest 

 buck in Africa, with inconsequential antlers, long and 

 dolorous-looking heads, high on the withers and sloping 

 aft, awkward, ungainly, loose-jointed, but, withal, keen- 

 eyed and alert, topping ant-hills or other eminences as 

 self-appointed sentinels of the wild life. 1 



I have frequently seen a single congoni with a bunch 



1 All are familiar with elephant, lion, rhinoceros, zebra, and hip- 

 popotamus, but very few are familiar with the appearance of the 

 Cape buffalo, eland, oryx, topi, kudu, waterbuck, bushbuck, impala, 

 congoni, Grant's gazelle, Thomson's gazelle, wildebeest, etc. For the 



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