-> Stalking Expeditions in the Xyika 



lore, doubly desirable and lull of promise, does an 

 exploration of this mountain-world, and its secrets, 

 appear to me. 



On our right there stretch out long, grass-grown 

 chains of hills, broken by steeply cut, dried-up stream- 

 courses. Again we come upon a species of antelope 

 which is not found in the desert. First one, then two, 



and now a fourth specimen, are put to flight by us. All 

 four antelopes were feeding openly in the valley when 

 our appearance there surprised them. These were the 

 handsome, curiously coloured mountain-reedbuck (Ccrvi- 

 capra ckanleri), a species distinguished by unusually long 

 tails, and in full sunlight looking almost white a type 

 of antelope whose discovery in East Africa by myself 

 was anticipated only by the American traveller Chanler. 



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