THE MIGHTIEST NIMROD OF MODERN TIMES. 
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The common tastes and interests of the two hunters now allied 
in Africa afford them ideal companionship and, what is more, are 
likely to insure markedly to the advancement of the collections of 
specimens which Colonel Roosevelt hopes to bring home with 
him. 
Mr. Selous’ presence is largely due to the fact that Colonel 
Roosevelt, in his quest for the extremely rare inyala antelope, has 
hopes that the exceptional experience and knowledge of his ally 
will bring him within reach of it; and that, in fact, is one of the 
prime reasons why Mr. Selous consented to take the field again with 
his friend. 
The story Mr. Selous tells of his own search for that rare and 
beautiful antelope equals anything Haggard ever imagined of Qua- 
termain, and, most interesting of all, it actually happened to him 
then, just as, if his luck hold good again, may in like manner happen 
to Colonel Roosevelt. 
WOMEN THE ONLY LABOR OBTAINABLE. 
Arriving at Laurenco Marques, on Delagoa bay, in September, 
1896, Mr. Selous sailed up the Maputa river to Amatongaland, 
where, at the junction of the Usutu and Pongolo rivers, the Maputa 
proper begins. Here, at the trading store of Mr. Wissels, he saw 
several horns and skins of inyala, evidently recently killed. After 
several days’ journey, leading a caravan of native women carriers, 
the only labor obtainable, he came upon the fresh spoor, or tracks, 
of what were undoubtedly inyala. 
He had crept about in the bush for an hour when at the further 
side of a glade, he beheld an inyala doe. 
“ I could see no other animal near her,” Mr. Selous states, 
'' and as I required two specimens of inyala does, the one for the 
British and the other for the South African Museum, I lost no time 
in firing at the animal in question, which I saw drop instantly at the 
first shot. 
But even as she did so, there appeared in her place, or very 
close to where she had stood, a great, black, shaggy form, which, 
indistinctly as I could see it in the deep shadows of the bush, I 
