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Passing northwards of the Zambesi we find the Sable Antelope recorded 
by Peters, in his ‘ Reise nach Mossambique,’ as met with in the Portuguese 
dominions west of Tette, and on the woody plains of Sena. In Nyasaland 
Mr. Crawshay tells us it is not by any means evenly distributed, but appears 
to be plentiful in some places. In the Shiré Highlands, as Sir Harry 
Johnston writes, the Sable is one of the commonest Antelopes, frequenting 
the wooded hills rather than the low-lying plains, and we have seen many 
heads obtained by Mr. Sharpe, the late Capt. Sclater, and others from this 
district. 
Sir Harry Johnston believes that the Sable Antelope is also found on the 
Nyasa-Tanganyika plateau; but it has not, so far as we are aware, been 
obtained there by Mr. Sharpe, Mr. Crawshay, Mr. Yule, and others who have 
traversed that district. It, however, certainly occurs again further north in 
the coast-district of German East Africa. Herr Oscar Neumann informs us 
that during his journey through German and British East Africa he never 
saw a specimen of H. niger alive, but only the skin of one that had been 
killed near Tanga on the coast. His opinion is that the species is not now 
to be met with anywhere in the interior of German East Africa, but that 
there are still some herds of it left on the coast opposite Zanzibar, near 
Tanga and Pangani. In this district it was formerly hunted by Sir John 
Kirk, in whose collection there is a head of the Sable Antelope, which has 
been examined by Sclater. The specimen, as Sir John kindly informs us, 
was obtained about twelve miles inland, somewhat to the north of the River 
Wami, in the winter of 1884-5. 
Whether the Sable Antelope occurs much further north than this seems to 
be by no means certain. Sir Harry Johnston has enumerated it among the 
Antelopes of the Kilimanjaro district (Kilima-njaro Exp. p. 354). Sir John 
Willoughby had a shot at what “he believed was a herd of ‘Sable 
Antelopes’” on his journey from Mombasa into the interior in 1886 (Kast 
Africa, pp. 46, 47), but did not secure a specimen. Mr. Jackson and 
Mr. Gedge “saw a herd of about ten or twelve near Gulu Gulu in November 
1888,” but Mr. Jackson admits that no European has yet bagged a Sable 
Antelope in British East Africa. 
There is also no good authority for the occurrence of the Sable Antelope 
still further north on the White Nile, although it is included in Heuglin’s 
List of N.E. African Mammals as being met with in the Shilluk country 
on the authority of v. Pruyssenaer. We may therefore, for the present, draw 
