CAPTURE OF A NZOWE ANTELOPE. 169 
name — became much attached to our camp. To give 
an idea of the sport here, Speke bagged three white 
rhinoceros in one day, much to the delight of the 
native princes, who never will forget the enjoyment it 
gave them. They would not eat the flesh ; but some 
Wezee porters — poor starved-like men, belonging to 
the Arab traders at Kufro — carried it away in enor- 
mous loads ; but when seen by their Mohammedan 
masters, the meat was sent out of camp as being 
unlawful, not having been regularly killed. On our 
mentioning to the king that we had heard of an 
extraordinary animal like a goat living in the lake, 
he ordered his people to capture one. Canoes of logs, 
two paddles each, and 18 feet long, were collected to 
beat the papyrus rushes, driving the animal into the 
water, when he was chased (as we were told) and 
captured alive, care being taken by outside canoes 
that no crocodiles attacked the men while in the 
water. A procession of singers walked up the hill, 
passing our huts, carrying the live animal neatly 
lashed upon a frame of wood to the sultan, who sent 
him to us " fresh from the lake." He (a young male 
antelope) was very timid, and lay down with a rope 
about his neck for a whole day ; but on a dish of 
water being presented to him, he dashed his head into 
it as if he felt himself once more in his native element. 
As he seemed to pine, refusing his natural food — the 
tops of the papyrus — he was killed. His coat was of 
long, dirty brown, rather soft hair. His horns, from 
five to six inches long, were commencing to spire ; 
the hoofs were of the true waterboc, immensely long, 
and widely separated ; height more than three feet. 
This species of antelope is called "nzowe" by the 
