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lost to sight in the thick scrub. But I felt sure he carried death with him, and so it 
proved, for we found him lying dead not twenty yards from where he had stood when 
the bullet struck him. The fatal missile had passed right through his shoulders, and, 
having expanded on impact, had torn his heart to pieces. I had the dead ewe brought 
to where the ram had fallen, and laid them side by side; and then stood admiring them 
for a long time before I could bring myself to skin them. To thus secure a very fine 
pair of Inyala Antelopes—whose excellently-mounted skins are now safe in the Mam- 
malian Gallery of the new Natural History Museum in Cromwell Road—on the very 
first day I had hunted for them, and after a little more than an hour’s search, was 
indeed a most glorious and exceptional piece of good fortune ; which, however, has been 
balanced by many and many a day that I can remember of unrequited labour in search 
of game. 
“ As soon as I had stripped the skins, with the leg-bones still attached, from my two 
beautiful specimens, I had them carried, together with the skulls, to Gugawi’s kraal on 
the edge of the bush, and there spent the remainder of the day in preparing them for 
mounting. Of the meat, which was all brought in, I sent a couple of haunches over 
to Mr. Wissels, and then, after keeping a small piece for myself, gave the remainder to 
Gugawi to divide amongst his people as he thought fit. 
“* Next morning I was up and out in the bush just as day was breaking, accompanied 
only by my guide of yesterday and Longman, who, however, kept some distance behind, 
in order to allow my guide and myself to approach our game as noiselessly as possible. 
We had been creeping about in the dense jungle for some three hours without having 
seen anything, although there was a good deal of fresh spoor about, and twice we had 
heard Inyalas dash away through the bush without getting a sight of them, when 
suddenly my guide crouched to the ground, at the same time pointing towards a 
large ant-heap growing out of the dense scrub, and itself covered with undergrowth. 
Following the direction of his arm, I made out a reddish patch not fifteen yards away 
in the gloom of the bush; and taking it for an Jnyala ewe, I fired into it point blank, 
as I required another specimen for mounting. At the shot the animal fell, and, on 
creeping up to it, I found that it was a young ram. It was something less in size than 
a full-grown female, from which it did not differ in any way in coloration, and the 
number and distribution of white stripes and spots. It was thus interesting, as showing 
that the Znyala changes in general colour from red to grey, only losing the rufous and 
orange tints on the ears and forehead, which were still conspicuous in the type-specimen 
described by Mr. Angas, when fully adult. 
“On returning to the kraal, Gugawi proposed to take me to a spot some few miles 
higher up the Usutu, where he said there were plenty of Inyalas, whilst at the same 
time the bush was not so dense as near his kraal. Being by this time thoroughly sick 
of crawling about bent nearly double, I hailed with delight the idea of finding the game 
I was seeking in a country where I could walk upright, and visions of Jnyala feeding 
through open glades passed through my mind ; visions, alas! which were never realized, 
for in my small experience I never found these Antelope anywhere except in dense 
bush. However, I was glad of the change, and soon had everything ready for a move. 
