With Flashlight and Rifle -* 



Masai highlands proper the first kind is not to be found ; 

 on the contrary, a strip of coast-line, stretching barely one 

 hundred kilometres inland, along the Mombasa-Tanga- 

 Pangani-Sadaani boundary, is the chief habitat of this 

 splendid antelope. We find kindred types in the south of 

 the country, in riverless districts. I have found quantities 

 of fresh horns among the dealers in Zanzibar, all, according 

 to their account, coming from German territory ; and, 

 more authentically, it seems to be established by the 

 experiences of various travellers, that the sable antelope 

 does not seldom occur in the coast districts. In the 

 Kilimanjaro country the " palla halla" is entirely missing. 

 It was in the Ngare-Dobash district that I first saw the 

 kindred roan antelope {Hippotragus eqmnus], which, later 

 on, I had again the opportunity of observing not far from 

 the Kikumbulia provinces. 



I do not believe it is the case that the hartebeest was 

 to be found in the Kilimanjaro country before the time 

 of the rinderpest ; at any rate, it can only have occurred 

 there in very small numbers. 



To obtain photographs of these glorious roan ante- 

 lopes in their native freedom would be an enterprise 

 worthy of any amount of endurance. Unfortunately I was 

 not able to undertake it. 



But, in compensation, I cannot say how many times I 

 came upon a type as beautiful as it is timid the fringe- 

 eared oryx (Oryx cal/otis}< which inhabits chiefly the 

 driest parts of the desert, as far as possible from water. 

 This type, numerously represented in Africa and Arabia, 

 reaches its highest development in the gemsbok (Oryx 



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