With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



the particular character has not as yet, to my knowledge, 

 been at all thoroughly investigated. These glands 

 fulfil the purpose of secreting a certain scent, which 

 makes it easier for the animals to find one another 

 in the wilderness. This antelope does not offer any 

 particular temptation to the sportsman, for its flat horns 

 form no very coveted trophy. The hartebeests can 

 live tor a long time without water, and the remark- 

 able power that many African ruminants have of exist- 

 ing with very little liquid food is thus again strikingly 

 exemplified. 



In the districts drained by the Victoria Nyanza I 

 became acquainted, some years ago, with two other 

 beautiful species of hartebeests namely, the tiang (Dama- 

 liscus jimeld) and Jackson's hartebeest (Bubalis jacksoui]. 

 In 1897 I a l- so succeeded in shooting in British East 

 Africa a type of hartebeest (Bubalis neuniauni} which 

 was then known by only two or three examples. At 

 that time, alas ! I had not conceived my plan ot taking 

 photographs ot Atrican wild beasts. 



The beautiful and graceful impalla-antelope (the 

 " swalla " of the caravan-carriers), the male specimens ot 

 which carry fine lyre-shaped, wide-spreading horns, is 

 found in small groups, and also in large herds ot as many 

 as two hundred, about the bushy, thinly wooded districts, 

 but never on the plain. The lovely wild creatures, it 

 shot at, alter their course over and over again with 

 great rapidity, so that they are continually meeting, 

 passing, crossing one another a vision ot enchanting 

 grace in the sun-drenched landscape ! Agility, grace, 



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