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The natives report them common on the eastern bank of the Zambesi, north 
of Lesheke. From a plate in Dr. Livingstone’s first book I always imagined 
that the Pookoo was found at the Lake Ngami; but, as he makes no mention 
of it in the letterpress before reaching the Zambesi, and as neither Andersson. 
nor Baldwin, who both visited the lake, seem to have known of its existence 
at all, this is perhaps erroneous. In size they stand about the same height 
at the shoulder as the Impala, but, being much thicker-set and stouter built, 
must weigh considerably more. The colour is a uniform foxy red, the hair 
along the back about the loins being often long and curly; the tips of the 
ears are black. The males alone bear horns, which are ringed to within three 
a Fig. 35. b 
Horns of Cobus vardoni.—a. Side view; 6. Front view. 
(P. Z.8. 1881, p. 760.) 
inches of the point, and curve forwards like those of the Lechwe, to which 
animal they are very closely allied. The longest pair I have in my posses- 
sion measures sixteen inches, which is about the extreme length they ever 
attain. These Antelopes are usually met with in herds of from three or four 
to a dozen in number; but on one of the alluvial flats to which I have 
before referred I have seen as many as fifty in one herd. Sometimes ten 
or a dozen rams may be seen together, or a solitary old fellow quite alone. 
I have often seen these Antelopes feeding in company with a herd of 
Impalas, and then their heavy thick-set forms contrasted strongly with the 
slim and graceful proportions of the latter animals. The meat of the 
Waterbuck is usually considered to be more unpalatable than that of any 
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