-* Stalking Expeditions in the Xyika 



fore, doubly desirable and lull of promise, does an 

 exploration of this mountain-world, and its secrets, 

 appear to me. 



On our right there- stre:tch out long, grass-grown 

 chains of hills, broken by steeply cut, elried-up stre-am- 

 courses. Again we come upon a species of antelope 

 which is not lounel in the elesert. First one, then two. 



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

 four antelopes were feeding openly in the valley when 

 our appearance there surprised them. I hese were the 

 handsome, curiously coloured mountam-reedbuck (( t'rri- 

 ('(f/>rtr c/Kiulcri}, a species distinguished by unusually long 

 tails, and in full sunlight looking almost whiter a t\pe 

 of antelope whose discovery in Fast Africa by mysell 

 was anticipated only by the American traveller Chanler. 



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