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though in reality closing in upon them in a semicircle ; but 

 directly he stops to take a shot they will shake their heads in 

 the most defiant way, and, with a few snorts and flicks of their 

 mule-like tails, kick up their heels and caper off jauntily. As 

 they will, as a rule, pull up a short way off, the sportsman will 

 have the annoyance of again adopting the same tactics, with 

 probably like results, until he might almost believe that the 

 wildebeest is enjoying itself at his expense. He should, how- 

 ever, avoid risking a long shot (the wildebeest is an extremely 

 tough brute, and will go for miles when wounded in such a 

 way as would soon bring other game to a standstill), since after 

 two or three fruitless attempts if no shot is fired its suspicions 

 will become allayed, and it will probably stand sufficiently long 

 to give him a good chance. 



COKE'S HARTEBEEST 



Coke's Hartebeest(Swahili, 'Kongoni') is by far the common- 

 est antelope in East Africa, and is found almost everywhere in 

 fairly open country, excepting in the Galla country and north 

 of Lake Baringo. It may be met with from April to August 

 as near the coast as Maji Chumvi, three marches from Mom- 

 basa, and ranges throughout the year as far north as Doreta, a 

 little to the south of Njemps, where Jackson's hartebeest takes 

 its place. Mr. Gedge obtained a hybrid between the two 

 species somewhere near Doreta, on his way down from Uganda 

 in 1892. 



LICHTENSTEIN'S HARTEBEEST 



Lichtenstein's Hartebeest, also known to the Swahilis as 

 ' Kongoni,' though they do not confound the two species, I in- 

 clude as a British East African antelope on the authority of 

 General Lloyd Mathews, who told me that he had shot some 

 of these beasts (one skull of which he showed me) on his way 

 down from Kilimanjaro to Pangani, but whether actually in 

 British territory I am unable to say. It is a common beast 

 south of the Pangani river, and in the beautiful undulating 



