CHAPTER VII 



INYALA : BUSHBUCK : REEDBUCK : IMPALA : 



DUIKER : Livingstone's antelope : oribi : 



KLIPSPRINGER : STEENBUCK 



Until Major Statham discovered that rare and 

 beautiful form, the Inyala, in the Gorongoza 

 district, between Beira and the Zambezi, some 

 three or four years ago, I had always believed 

 that, with the exception of a limited number 

 which occur some distance up the Sabi River, — 

 or at all events did so as late as 1907, — no inyala 

 were to be found between that point and a small 

 area near Chiromo in British Nyasaland, which, 

 in the early years of the far-distant nineties, 

 used to be somewhat facetiously called " Rose- 

 bery Park." I never knew why this somewhat 

 high-sounding designation should have come to 

 be conferred upon a portion of the west bank of 

 the Shire River, which, tor tropical wildness and 

 unpark-hke aspect, was, at the time of which 

 I write, probably second to no other in the 

 country ; but old Central Africans, who were 

 my contemporaries of those days, may perhaps 

 remember that this region, whether it came to be 

 called Rosebery Park during his long sojourn 

 in the country I cannot recall, was the camping 

 place of an extremely delightful and entertaining 



