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Frenchman whose name, Edouard Foa, is still 

 remembered. Monsieur Foa afterwards wrote 

 an account of his hunting and wanderings in 

 which, if I mistake not, although reference is 

 made to Rosebery Park, but little light is thrown, 

 I fear, upon the obscure reasons for its having 

 been so named. In any case, within a stone's- 

 throw of Rosebery Park inyala were, and I 

 believe still are, to be found. Persons desiring 

 to secure a specimen of this antelope whilst 

 hunting in Zambezia will thus have an oppor- 

 tunity of doing so in a district within easy reach ; 

 otherwise the representatives of this attractive 

 family to be found on the Sabi are, I am informed, 

 extremely difficult to get at, occurring as they 

 do in a portion of the country which has been 

 described as an oasis in the midst of a sort of 

 desert of thirsty bush-country. The Marchese 

 de Pizzardi, shooting there in 1907, secured a 

 very beautiful specimen, of which he showed me 

 the skin ; but the hunt after it occupied some 

 two months, and the experiences he described 

 to me were certainly not of the pleasantest. I 

 have no knowledge of the remote district in which 

 Major Statham discovered his specimens the 

 following year, and therefore can say little 

 about it except that from what he told me it 

 is a part of the country which takes a long 

 time to reach. 



The singular characteristic of the inyala, 

 which confines a certain number, never very 

 large, to a given restricted area, no more occurring 

 for, it may be, many hundreds of miles until 



