-* The Antelopes of East Africa 



while in the proximity of the stations the game is 

 extirpated. 



The wild-animal fauna, which I was there enabled 

 to investigate long- before a railroad connected the Indian 

 Ocean with the largest of Central African lakes, has thus 

 been for the most part kept intact, and gives a plain 

 indication of what may be accomplished also in the 



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proximity of the projected railways in German East Africa 

 by means of the same judicious administration. 



Besides the three species already mentioned, some 

 giants of the antelope kind inhabit many parts of German 

 East Africa. These are the large roan and sable antelopes 

 (Hippotragus eqjiinus and Hippotragns niger], both called 

 by the Waswahili " palla halla." O. Neumann has pointed 

 out a third species in the South Masai country. In the 



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