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in his volume on the ‘Large Game of South and South-east Africa,’ has 
given a lithographic plate with figures of both sexes of this animal. 
When he wrote his ‘ Hunter’s Wanderings,’ in 1881, Mr. Selous, our 
leading authority on the game-mammals of South Africa, had never seen 
a living example of this Antelope. But in September 1896 he made a 
successful expedition to Amatonga-land in search of it, and subsequently 
wrote an account of his adventures on this occasion in ‘The Field’ news- 
paper, from which, by his kind consent, we make the following extracts. 
Arriving at Lourenco Marques on September 21st, he was invited by a 
Mr. Wissels, a Cape colonist of German extraction, to visit his station near 
the junction of the Pongolo and Usutu Rivers, where Inyalas were said to be 
plentiful, and arrived there after a long tramp of several days through the 
swampy forests. 
We will give Mr. Selous’s account of his hunt after Inyalas in this district 
in his own words :— 
“There were now abundant signs that I was approaching the haunts of the beautiful 
Antelope I had come so far to seek, as Inyala horns and skins were very much in 
evidence round Mr. Wissels’s store, and several of the latter had manifestly been but 
recently killed. 
“* All these animals, I was assured, had been shot by the Amatonga within a short 
distance of the store, in the dense jungles lying in the angle between the Usutu and 
Pongolo Rivers, which I could now see covering some low ridges at a distance of not 
more than six or seven miles from where we stood. Had it not been for the rain, 
I should have gone on the same afternoon; however, I gathered a good deal ot 
information, and arranged for a start with fresh carriers as early as possible the following 
day—my objective point being the kraal of an Amatonga head-man named Gugawi, who, 
I was told, lived a few miles up the Usutu River, on the very edge of the jungle where 
Inyala were said to be plentiful. I noticed, however, that my informants were not over 
confident about my being likely to shoot any of these animals. 
“That night we had a most tremendous thunderstorm, the rain falling in torrents ; 
and, as the place in which I was sleeping was not water-tight, I had rather a bad time 
of it, and was very glad when day broke. 
“The thunderstorm had cleared the air, and Sunday, Sept. 27, dawned bright and 
clear, with every prospect of its being a fine day. I had all my things packed up 
pretty early, and with four new women-carriers, and accompanied by two men who 
knew the way to Gugawi’s kraal, managed to get off about an hour after sunrise, and 
reached my destination before 10 o’clock. On our way we crossed the Usutu River— 
here a clear, swift-flowing stream, about 200 yards in breadth, running over a bed of 
sand. We waded across it, and found the water quite shallow for the most part, and 
never more than 3 feet deep. 
