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growth; sounds which betray the hunter 
from afar. 
The chief advice I would offer in this 
kind of sport is firstly, to follow the 
track, treading in the footprints of the 
game followed, as a heavy animal, such 
as the bongo, will have already cracked 
the twigs under foot and, secondly, to 
proceed infinitely slowly. If one does 
not come up with the quarry nothing is 
lost — it will remain in the neighborhood 
to b'e hunted the next day. If, from 
overhaste, one makes a noise and 
scares the game it will clear out of 
the vicinity, and it will be of little use 
to remain in the district. 
Swamps and Rivers. 
A FEW animals make their habi- 
tat in the dense papyrus swamps, 
such are: — the red and the black 
lechwe — both of which are found in 
Lake Bangweolo; the situtunga — - 
which occurs in the same lake, round 
the shores of Lake Victoria and in the 
Bahr et Ghazal, where it is rare; Mrs. 
Gray’s lechwe — which lives in the 
sudd region of the Nile and the white- 
eared kob of the same region, but lives 
rather in the vicinity of swamp than 
actually in it. 
The lechwes live largely in the 
water and take refuge in the water, 
but graze on adjacent grass lands. 
They all have a peculiar habit of put- 
ting their noses to the ground, as they 
run off, like a hound following scent. 
The first time I s'aw Mrs. Gray’s 
lechwe was in 1910 when proceeding up 
the Nile. It was then called Mrs. 
Gray’s waterbuck, but directly I saw 
the way it put its head down I recog- 
nized its similarity to a lechwe. A few 
weeks later I received a letter from 
Colonel Roosevelt, who had just con- 
cluded his African trip, saying, 
amongst other things, that his expedi- 
tion had discovered that Mrs. Gray’s 
was not a waterbuck but a highly col- 
ored lechwe. 
The old males of this buck and the 
white-eared kob are, like most game, 
darker than the females, and young; 
in fact, they appear quite black, 
whilst the latter are chestnut. The 
males of the two species may be dis- 
tinguished at a considerable distance 
for Mrs. Gray’s is marked with white 
on the withers whilst the kob has white 
ears. 
The little chevrotain, found in the 
Congo, is another aquatic animal, 
whilst on every swamp, lake and river 
of any size, which has not been much 
disturbed, the hippo and crocodile are 
common. 
Mountains. 
T HE strictly mountain game of 
Africa are: — the ibex, found in 
the hills back of Suakim and in 
the Italian colony of Erythrea; and 
the barbary sheep inhabiting the 
mountains of the Northwest. There is 
also the little Klippspringer which 
occurs on rocky hills, and even isolated 
bosses, or kopjes, throughout the 
greater part of the continent. Chan- 
ler’s Reedbuck has similar habits, but 
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