WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



weather, it is very hard, indeed, to take satisfactory 

 pictures of them. The best chance I ever had I spoiled 

 myself by my nervousness. Near the Kitumbin vol- 

 cano I came upon a magnificent buck. Though he no- 

 ticed me, he allowed me to approach within two hundred 

 and fifty feet. I was highly elated, for I never had had 

 such a fine opportunity. But when I developed the 

 plate, the picture proved a woful failure. 



The greatest enemy of the lesser koodoo seems to be 

 the leopard. I often found pieces of koodoo flesh 

 hanging in the trees, placed there for safe keeping by 

 the cunning feline. 



The largest and heaviest of all African antelopes is 

 the eland (Oreas livingstoni) , looking and behaving very 

 much like our ox. Some bull elands are enormous in 

 weight — one thousand eight hundred pounds or more — 

 and in size ; their neck is thickened with ample deposits 

 of fat and their limbs are massive. The height of a 

 large bull at the withers measures up to five feet nine 

 inches or more. I found that the coat of females was 

 invariably striped, ten to twelve white lines running tra- 

 versely from the dorsal line round the barrel. Old bulls 

 lose these markings completely. While the horns of 

 the male are always regularly formed, I often noticed 

 great variations in the horns of females. 



The rinderpest destroyed the bufTalo almost entirely 

 in German East Africa; only a few small herds remain. 

 It was feared that the eland had suffered a similar 



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