AND SOME ANLELOPES OF ANGOLA. 327 



a Duiker with the usual characters of grimmi. In one detail 

 only are the above at variance with Neumann's description. He 

 states that his Antelope was smaller than average grimmi. 

 Avhereas the writer, who saw many of them in the open forest 

 between the Quanza and Luando, considers that tlie}^ were above 

 the average size for this species. But the animal which he 

 described was a menagerie specimen, and therefore unlikely to 

 have attained a perfect development. 



They a,re as richly and strikingly coloured as are the Oribi and 

 the Great Sable Antelope that inhabit the same country. 



A foetus and a young female a few weeks old are greyer and 

 more grizzled in colour, resembling the northern I'ace ahyssinicus, 

 and show no traces of the white markings of the adults. 



Part II. 



Between Benguela and Mossamedes lies a wild desert region of 

 rock, sand, and thoi'n-scrub, almost waterless and uninhabited 

 save for the presence of nomad Baquando, half negroid, half bush- 

 men, who roam over the country with their herds of goats, and a 

 few Portuguese and native fishermen, existing from hand to 

 mouth along the beach. 



There is a deserted sugar factory at Equimina, its spacious and 

 not unimposing facade rising above a close-set tangle of tropical 

 bush and old OA'ergrown gai-dens, near the middle of a wide and 

 pleasant bay, one of the few places along this coast possessing a 

 supply of good fresh water. At one time the site of a prosperous 

 plantation employing considerable native labour, the place has 

 now shrunk to a small untidy village harbouring an uncouth 

 assortment of beach-combing blacks and two or three Portuguese 

 fishermen. 



In the next bay to the south, called Elephant Bay, distant 

 60 miles from Benguela, a whaling station has been established 

 by a Norwegian company. 



Mr. Tyler Thompson, an Englishman well known in Angola, 

 has been in sole charge of this whaling station during the war, 

 and it was here that I landed at midnight on December 20th, 

 1918, after four consecutive days and nights spent in an open 

 fishing boat, tacking up against contrary winds from Benguela . It 

 was some relief to disembark on the threshold of an Englishman 

 in this otherwise inhospitable wilderness. 



Mr. Thompson, being an old elephant hunter with an intimate 

 knowledge of the game of the country, was able to give me much 

 valuable help and information, and I am indebted to him for the 

 success of my hunting excursions in this difficult country. A 

 supply of good water in small barrels, and fresh fruit and 



