KAAMA ANTELOPES 



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were two of the so-called kaama antelopes [Alcelaphus Icaama), 

 the first met with by us, all our other antelopes having been 

 of the Alcelaplms Cokii variety. The chief difference between 

 the two kinds is in the size and form of the horns. 



Whilst hunting in this district Count Teleki came one day 

 to the long, narrow lake with lukewarm waters, at the base of 

 the plateau, discovered by the unfortunate Bishop Hannington, 

 and named after him. The water is clear, but very salt and 

 bitter, with quantities of green algre about the size of a grain 

 growing in it. Although the temperature at the north end is 

 no higher than that 

 of the air, it is, ac- 

 cording to Bedue 

 and other attendants 

 of the Bishop, con- 

 siderably higher at 

 the southern ex- 

 tremity. At the 

 edge of the lake 

 were the spoors of 

 many hippopotami, 

 and the surface was 

 alive with many kinds 

 of water birds, in- 

 cluding the small variety of the flamingo, with deep pink 

 plumage. With six charges of small shot, the Count brought 

 down twenty-five. Another interesting bird secured on this 

 occasion was a single specimen of a snipe with white breast 

 plumage, steel-green feathers on the back, and red legs. 



On the evening of the 27th the Count returned to Nyemps 

 to have a day's rest. He did a little hunting the next evening, 

 however, and wounded a bufialo, the spoor of which he followed 

 on the morning of the 29th, when he started on another trip 



