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went out and shot the animal, upon the head of which the species was after- 
wards based. After this Colonel Coke was taken so ill that he had to be 
carried back to the coast in a hammock, and was unable to shoot any more of 
these Antelopes. 
In Sir John Kirk’s collection are two fine heads of this Hartebeest, likewise 
obtained by him in Usagara. 
Proceeding northwards to the country round Kilimanjaro we find that 
Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, in his appendix to Sir John Willoughby’s ‘ East Africa 
Fig. 45. 
Horns of Bubalis cokei, side view. 
and its Big Game,’ records Coke’s Hartebeest as, at the date of his visit 
(1857), “quite the most common Antelope in the plains” of that district, 
“being found everywhere in immense herds.” From the same part of the 
British East-African Company’s territory we have seen and examined numerous 
other heads of this Hartebeest, including fine examples of both sexes belonging 
to Consul-General Holmwood, obtained during a shooting-excursion from 
Zanzibar to this attractive district. 
Mr. Ernest Gedge, who traversed British East Africa in company with 
Mr. F. J. Jackson, has kindly compiled from his note-books the following 
account of his experiences with Coke’s Hartebeest :— 
“These Antelopes range over a very wide extent of country in both British 
