102 SAVAGE SUDAN 



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(ll) KORDOFAN 



January 19. Yesterday evening, landing an hour 

 before dusk, I had shot, in open forest, two red-fronted 

 gazelles ; but there rankled in mind the memory of a lost 

 opportunity. For I had allowed a lovely bushbuck ram 

 to pass close by. Daintily he tripped past riverwards, 

 and totally unconscious of my presence within 100 yards ; 

 but so fascinated were my eyes with his beauty that 



HARNESSED BUSHBUCK Kordofan, January i8th, 1914. 

 " Daintily tripped riverwards." 



dark pelage all striped, spotted, and spangled in striking 

 patterns that I waited too long in admiration. Then 

 His Majesty entered the zone of the setting sun, where 

 aiming (with telescope-sight) becomes impossible, and I 

 saw him no more. This was quite the handsomest male 

 of the harnessed bushbuck {Tragelephus scriptus] that I 

 happened seeing all that season in Sudan his memory 

 is preserved in the annexed unworthy effort to depict 

 such animal-beauty and I resolved, if energy could do 

 it, to retrieve the catastrophe next day. 



With that object, and also to secure a good head or two 



