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It was dusk ere we regained Candace triumphant, 

 but bemired to the eyes, blackened with charred reeds, 

 pierced in every limb, and with khaki clothes cut to ribbons 

 by canes and spear-grass. Never do I recollect a more 

 exhausting stalk. 



My trophies measured : 



The wide "spread" of No. i amply corroborates our 

 correct eye-judgment as formed at the first, distant view ; 

 while the v/orn-down annulations showed this (indeed 

 both] to be aged animals. 



Curiously these two saddle-back rams were the only 

 first-rate males of their kind that we happened to see 

 this year during a whole month spent in their haunts ; 

 though the previous winter (1912-13) I had met with 

 quite a number, including troops of twenty and upwards. 

 In 1919, a single ram that appeared quite of champion 

 class, stood meditatively at almost the identical spot ; and 

 both these winters we saw others of minor merit. 



The same evening I drew up a full and formal report 

 of the incident practically the above yarn (which now 

 doubtless reposes among stored archives of the Sudan) 

 addressed to the Superintendent of the Game Depart- 

 ment of the Sudan Government. That Authority was, 

 I am convinced, satisfied with its bona fides ; but, being 

 an esteemed personal friend of my own to wit, Mr A. L. 

 Butler preferred to leave its adjudication to the Sirdar, 

 Sir Reginald Wingate, who exonerated me from blame, 

 while confiscating the"* second trophy ! The justice of 

 the latter condition is self-evident. 



The game-regulations in our East-African Colonies 



