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“Tn the afternoon we travelled some five or six miles up the river, and pitched camp 
in a bit of jungle near the water’s edge. The Usutu River is here very broad, and 
reminded me strongly of parts of the Chobi; but whereas the banks of the latter river, 
as I knew it in the early seventies, abounded in game of many descriptions, from the 
elephant downwards, there was not a track to be seen along the Usutu of any kind of 
animal with the exception of the Inyala. All the wealth of wild life which Baldwin 
saw in this same district forty years ago has melted away before the guns of the native 
Amatonga hunters; for, be it noted, this is a country in which but very little game has 
been killed by white men. Rhinoceroses, buffaloes, koodoos, waterbucks, impalas, 
lions, all are gone—the only game left being the Inyalas, which owe their preservation 
to the dense jungles in which they live; and even they are being rapidly killed off, as 
the natives are always after them, lying in wait for them in the paths made by the 
hippopotami, or creeping stealthily through the bush jn their pursuit. 
“‘ It would be but tedious reading were I to continue to describe in detail my further 
bush-crawling experiences in search of Inyalas. Suffice it to say that on Oct. 1 and 2 
I secured two more good rams, and preserved their heads for my own Collection. 
Although I should have liked to get a fourth ram for the South-African Museum, I did 
not think it prudent to remain any longer in my camp on the edge of a swamp, where 
I knew the air must be reeking with malarial poison, as, besides the exhalations from the 
marsh, the ground (from which I was only separated at nights by a little dry grass and 
a blanket) had been soaked to the depth of 2 feet by the recent rain, thus rendering 
the conditions more than usually unhealthy. The weather, too, was now again looking 
very threatening, and I did not relish the idea of any further lying out in the rain; as 
I knew, from former experience, that I should probably have to pay for the wettings I 
had already suffered by some attacks of fever—a disease from which I had been entirely 
exempt for seven years, but the poison of which I knew was still in my blood, and 
would be likely to be again stirred into activity by my recent exposure to unhealthy 
conditions. 
“Hence, on Saturday, Oct. 3, I packed up my things and returned to Gugawi’s 
kraal, walking on in the afternoon to Mr. Wissels’s store, and thence to Lourenco 
Marques, Delagoa Bay, which I reached on October 7th, after a hot and weary 
tramp.” 
Until lately the Inyala was believed to be restricted to the coast-lands of 
Eastern Africa south of the Zambesi. Recently, however, it has been 
discovered that this Antelope is likewise found further northward on the 
Upper Shiré, where it is known to the natives as the ‘“ Bo,” the o being 
pronounced very long. Mr. Alfred Sharpe, C.B., on his return to England 
at the end of 1891, first brought home a single flat skin of the so-called 
“Bo,” which was identified by Sclater as belonging to the male of this 
species, and other specimens have since been obtained in the same district. 
Mr. Sharpe’s information was that it is found only in a piece of thick scrubby 
