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The Lechee is also well figured by Wolf in a plate in Andersson’s ‘ Lake 
Ngami,’ which contains an account of that traveller's expedition to the 
Lake from the west coast in 1854. After a description of the animal 
Andersson says:—‘‘'The Leché is a Waterbuck, for though not actually 
living in the water, it is never found any distance from it. Great numbers 
are annually destroyed by the Bayeye, who convert their hides into a kind 
of rug for sleeping on, carosses, and other wearing apparel.” 
The National Collection likewise contains a good mounted specimen of the 
male of this Antelope obtained by Mr. F. C. Selous at Umparira, on the 
Chobe, in 1881. In his paper on the Antelopes of Central South Africa, 
published in the Zoological Society’s ‘ Proceedings’ for 1881, Mr. Selous 
gives us the following account of his experiences with the Lechee :— 
“This Antelope is first met with in the marshes of the Botletlie River, 
and is very numerous in the open grassy plains which are always more or 
less inundated by the Tamalakan, Mababe, Machabe, Sunta, and Chobe 
rivers. It is also common along the Upper Zambesi. In the swamps of 
the Lukanga River, about 150 miles to the south-west of Lake Bengweolo, 
which I visited in 1878, I found the Leegwee Antelope in large herds. 
“ After Speke’s Antelope, the Lechee is the most water-loving Antelope 
with which I am acquainted, and is usually to be seen standing knee-deep, 
or even up to its belly, in water, cropping the tops of the grass that appear 
above the surface, or else lying just at the water's edge. As is the case 
with Zragelaphus spekii, the backs of the feet are devoid of hair between 
the hoof and the dew-claws, whilst in the Pookoo, as with all other 
Antelopes, this part is covered with hair. In some parts of the country 
Leegwee Antelopes are very tame; in others, where they are much 
persecuted by the natives, excessively wild. When they first make up their 
minds to run they stretch out their noses, the males laying their horns flat 
along their sides, and trot ; but on being pressed they break into a springing 
gallop, now and then bounding high into the air. Even when in water up 
to their necks, they do not swim, but get along by a succession of bounds, 
making a tremendous splashing. Of course, when the water becomes too 
deep for them to bottom, they are forced to swim, which they do well and 
strongly, though not as fast as the natives can paddle; and when the country 
is flooded, great numbers are driven into deep water and speared. In the 
adult Leegwee the ears are of a uniform fawn-colour; but in the young 
