122 BIG GAME SHOOTING 
wild man is marvellous. A European must have died of the 
wounds, or the consequent fever. The native, it appeared, had 
stopped behind, as we came through the pass, to mend his 
sandal, and, taking a short cut to rejoin us, had chanced upon 
the wounded lion, which first seized him by the large back 
muscles of the thigh, and on his striking him over the head 
with his fist, shifted his grip to the arm, which was munched 
up to the elbow, though no bones were broken. I have 
before said, lions do not attack men in daylight without strong 
cause. J opened this one, and foundthe stomach and nearly 
the whole of the intestines absolutely empty! The beast was 
starving—he had evidently bled all night, and was very weak, 
a fact which may account for the man’s getting off easier than 
one would expect. : 
My journey with Livingstone to Lake ’Ngami, and my sub- 
sequent visit to the Zambesi in the same company, have been 
fully described by the Doctor himself, and though on both oc- 
casions I had to kill game for the camp, they do not fall within 
the category of shooting expeditions. They were made with other 
ends in view, and would be out of place in a narrative of this 
kind ; it will be sufficient to say we were successful in introducing 
two new antelopes'!—the ’Nakong and the Leché. The latter, 
of a dark fawn-colour, with horns annulated and curved like 
the waterbuck’s, only smaller, was found on the flats between 
the shallow lake Kamadou and the Sesheké plains, west of 
the Zambesi, the former about Lake ’Ngami, and in the marshy 
land and pools of one of its affluents, the Teoge River. It 
is a veritable swamp-liver, about the size of a goat, with long, 
brownish hair, and horns resembling those of the koodoo in 
miniature. The abnormal elongation of its hoof enables it to 
skim over the surface of morasses into which other antelopes 
would sink. I have one, which I have just measured, very 
nearly four inches long—if it were in the ratio of the animal’s size, 
1 We heard of a third antelope which was said to burrow, but we never 
saw it. Has any later traveller anything to say about it? or is it a myth? 
The Kafirs were precise enough in their description. 
