-* The Antelopes of Mast 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 



proximity of the projected railways in (lerman I 'last Africa 

 by means of the same judicious administration. 



Besides the three species already mentioned, some 

 giants of the antelope kind inhabit many parts of (ierman 

 I 'last Africa. These are the large roan and sable antelopes 

 {Hippotragiis c<jiuiuts and Ifif>f>oti'iign$ ;//;''<"/'). both called 

 by the \Vaswahili " palla halla." (X Neumann has pointed 

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



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