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that I approach wounded animals with such precaution 

 that I often get within ten yards, seeing them 

 distinctly, without their suspecting my presence. 

 Apprenticeship with the buffalo of the south is so 

 dangerous, and it exercises your faculties so w r ell, that 

 other animals of the same species, even when vicious, 

 do not appear much to be feared. 



In the Lower Congo, in the direction of Lukolela 

 and in the hilly districts, that is, at the extremity of 

 the equatorial forest, 1 buffaloes appeared to me to be 

 more plentiful than at the eastern boundary of the 

 Manyema. 



The antelopes which I have shot in the Congo, 

 both in the forest and in the Manyema, are the 

 pookoo (cobus vardoni) and the letchwe (cobus 

 letche), which I had already seen and reported near 

 Lake Bangweolo, a smaller variety of hartebeest 

 than the lichtenstein, and with horns wider apart, on 

 account of which it has been given the name of 

 lunatus (it is also called " tsessebe ") ; the large 

 hartebeest or Jcaama, which I had not seen since 

 being in South Africa ; and a small brown antelope 

 with straight horns which abounds in certain parts 

 of the forest, and somewhat resembles a bush- 

 buck but is darker. In the villages I saw a fair 

 number of horns, mostly those of tragelaphus; thus 

 I feel certain that there are in the equatorial forest 

 inyalas, situtungas (tragelaphus speeki), and koodoos, 



butt when, they are so seriously wounded as to be unable to flee. It 

 is then dangerous to draw too near to them. The bushbuck and the 

 sable antelope, for example, defend themselves desperately. 

 1 Especially in the part called " the canal." 



