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and is not to be found in British East Africa. The 

 situtunga is a swamp dweller and is found chiefly in 

 Uganda and, to my knowledge, infrequently in the 

 East African protectorate. 



The bongo is to the white sportsman what the 

 north pole has been to explorers for centuries. In 

 all records of game shooting there has been, until 

 recently, only one white man who has killed a 

 bongo, although the Wanderobo dwellers of the 

 deep forests have killed many. 



The bongo lives in the densest part of dense for- 

 ests, can drive his way through the worst tangle of 

 vegetation, and has a hearing and eyesight so keen 

 that usually he sees the hunter long before the lat- 

 ter sees him. A hunt after bongo means long hours 

 or even days of hunting the forests, with hardships 

 of travel so disheartening that comparatively few 

 white sportsmen attempt to go in after the elusive 

 antelope. Kermit Roosevelt, however, with the good 

 fortune that has followed his hunting adventures, 

 succeeded in killing a cow and calf bungo after only 

 a few hours of hunting with a Wanderobo. 



A few days after I heard of this piece of good 

 luck I was traveling across Victoria Nyanza on one 

 of the little steamers that ply the lake. My cabin 

 mate was a stoical Englishman who told me quite 

 calmly that he had just killed a large bull bongo a 

 few days before. He had been visiting Lord Del- 

 amere, and after a few hours in the forest had suc- 

 ceeded in doing what only two white men had done 

 before. 



