-* The Antelopes of Hast Africa 



steeply elasticity, wonderfully vigorous beauty all arc- 

 here combined in one small compass. 



Timid and pretty, the impalla-antelopes are extremely 

 cautious also, and the alarm-note of the bucks is heard 

 as often by day as by night. I found young impalla- 

 antelopes in December ; their mothers remained near 

 the large; herd. 



The impallas like particularly the freshly sprung 

 young grass, and manage to discover this even from 

 great distances. They frequently alter their habitat. 

 During the driest part of the year they keep in the 

 closest proximity to the streams and brooks, where they 

 may always be found in the; hollows where fresh grass 

 is growing. The natives know this, so they burn little 

 tracts of the velt in order that the young grass may 

 spring up on them. The antelopes will come, hurrying 

 to these from afar, and many of the pretty creatures are 

 shot in this way amongst the half-charred solanum- 

 bushes upon the blackly burnt soil of the velt. 



In the autumn of the; year i Sqo I observed, in the 

 middle; of a herd of about two hundred impallas. by 

 the Mto-Xyaki at Kilimanjaro, a perte-ctly white; female 

 specimen. I succe;eeled, to my gre-at delight, in killing 

 this specimen, afte;r much stalking, renele;reel especially 

 difficult bv the watchfulness and numbers of the others. 

 1 he tollowing-up was made laborious l>\ the almost 

 impenetrable "bowstring" hemp thickets which cover the 

 low-lying land ne;ar this stream. It was only after the; third 

 bullet that I actually got hold of the longed-for animal, 

 an 1 then I saw that she was pregnant with a male voting 



