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of elephant^s meat^ and it was excellent. The ringing was hung 
with the sliced flesh to he sundried_, storms permitting. 
June 14/4. — A pleasant breeze the early part of the day^ and we 
made good progress. But at noon a sudden hurricane burst j the 
sails in an instant were rent^ and we were obliged to make fast to 
the reeds_, when the rain came down in torrents. The men made 
a covering of a large sheet of oil-cloth_, and beneath its shelter they 
all crouched. The children and women^ the gazelle and goat_, we 
had in the cabin, with ourselves. As no fire could be lighted we 
made a biscuit dinner. Sur Katti^s boat was in even a worse plight 
than ours. The poor corporal is still very ill ; we sent him port 
wine, but fear that he is dying. 
Sunday y June 15/4. — No hope of getting on to-day. It is very 
fine, and the sails are spread out to dry ; one is so much damaged 
that it is necessary to curtail it. On Sur Katti^s boat a sail is 
altogether lost. The poor corporal is so ill that the felucca has 
been sent down stream to bring back Dr. Murie. Petherick went 
out with his gun, and shot a fine female antelope; he wounded 
another, but, as night was approaching, it was not tracked. 
This antelope was of the kind described by Mr. Gray as a new 
species, the head of which Petherick supplied the British Museum 
with in 1859. Mr. Gray called it Kobus Maria, after his wife, who 
had so assisted him in his studies, and described it thus : Head of 
male, blackish-brown ; lips, chin, gullet, orbits, and temple enclos- 
ing the base of the ears, whitish ; the sides of the nose, brownish ; 
the hair of the cheek, side of the lower jaw, gullet, and upper part 
(all that remains) of the neck, elongate, rigid ; the horns elongate, 
rather slender, widely lyrate, with very strong transverse ridges 
and incurved tips. 
