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the rains, but keep to the plains all the year round; apparently they revel in 
almost impassable swamps, where only Elephants, Buffaloes, and Reedbucks 
care to stay, and I have occasionally followed them in mud and water almost 
waist-deep. In such places one has to undergo cruel torture from reed-cuts 
and mosquitoes, the latter of the fiercest type and even in broad noonday 
most vicious. Nature has provided the Waterbuck with a tougher hide 
and coarser hair than any other of its kind; but even these are not proof 
against the rank tall ‘mabandi’ grass and spear-like ‘matele’ reeds, and 
I have noticed that the legs of some of those that I have killed have 
suffered considerably, the skin on the fetlocks and pasterns being cut clean 
through.” 
Proceeding northwards to German East Africa we find Cobus ellipsiprymnus 
included in Matschie’s volume on the Mammals of that colony. Herr 
Neumann has transmitted specimens to Berlin from Tanga, and Herr von 
Hohnel is given as an authority for its occurrence on the Pangani. Speke 
also met with it in Uzaramo, where it was numerous in the jungles along the 
Kingani River. In British East Africa, as we are told by Mr. Jackson, the 
Waterbuck is common everywhere south of Lake Baringo near fresh water, 
and is also found on many of the saltwater creeks on the coast. It is par« 
ticularly plentiful on the banks of the Tana River, and in the Kilimanjaro 
district, where Sir John Willoughby and his party (see ‘ East Africa and its 
Big Game’) and Dr. Abbott also met with it. ‘“ Like most bush-loving 
Antelopes,” Mr. Jackson says, “‘it is fairly easy to stalk, but is a very tough 
beast, and takes a good deal of killing, if not hit in the right place. Its 
flesh, though much relished by the natives, is coarse and rank—indeed that 
of an old bull is almost uneatable.” Mr. Gedge, who was at one time 
Mr. Jackson’s companion in East Africa, writes to us that on one occasion 
in Buddu, a province of Uganda, he fell in with, and shot, a solitary buck of 
this species, of a light, almost fawn-colour, and adds that their colour varies 
from a light brown to an almost dark slate in different localities. He 
considers it one of the commonest Antelopes in British East Africa. In 
Somaliland the Waterbuck was found on the Webbe Shabeleh by Capt. 
Swayne and Col. Arthur Paget in the spring of 1894. In his excellent 
volume on his Somali journeys Captain Swayne tells us that he found it very 
plentiful all along the banks of the river as far as he followed the stream. 
‘They lie up in the dense forest which clothes both banks along the water’s 
