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variety which wandered about both in and out of 

 the Consular premises very much as she pleased. 

 She would graze on a large open sand-flat 

 immediately in rear of the house, fraternising 

 in the most friendly manner with a fine bush- 

 buck and some crested cranes, the property of 

 my neighbours ; but she always came back 

 shortly before sunset, when she would sit up on 

 her hind legs and beg for cigarettes, the tobacco 

 of which she ate with great eagerness and 

 enjoyment. In course of time, unfortunately, 

 she learnt that by dint of much perseverance 

 she could manage to push up the lid of the silver 

 cigarette-box with her nose and help herself — 

 which she did several times, I fear, before discovery 

 overtook her. She was extremely fond of dry 

 toast, but would never eat bread; and so far 

 did her instinctive fears desert her that she paid 

 not the smallest attention to dogs. On my 

 return to England in 1906 poor Bessie was given 

 by me to an English lady residing in Beira, but 

 shortly afterwards, in endeavouring to leap the 

 fence of the back premises in which she was 

 confined, she broke one of her shapely forelegs, 

 and had to be destroyed. 



Among the several remaining small antelopes 

 to which some reference must be made is that 

 very beautiful forest -loving type called Living- 

 stone's Antelope. This graceful form is extremely 

 numerous in the forests of Shupanga, as also in 

 various parts of the Quelimane district, as well 

 as throughout the northern half of the Mozam- 

 bique Province. 



