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ELEPHANT-HUNTING IN EAST AFRICA 
CHAP. 
approach Lake Rudolph only at this particular part. For the 
natives themselves do not penetrate any distance into the back 
country, as was shown by their conduct on this day. I had 
supposed that they turned back from fear of the elephants, of 
which they undoubtedly stand in great dread ; but they assured 
me they were afraid to go far in that direction lest they might 
meet with some of the Batshada people, with whom they were 
A New HarTEBEESTE {Bubalis neumanni, 6 and 9). 
not on speaking terms. It shows how risky it is to lose a 
chance of getting any desirable specimen when opportunity 
offers, in the hope—which may and often does prove vain— 
of meeting with plenty more farther on. In this instance, 
however, I was luckily not disappointed, and was able to bring 
back with me to this country the skulls and scalps of a male 
and female, as well as a flat skin. Subjoined is the description 
of this new species of hartebeeste from the Annals and 
Magazine of Natural History (ser. 6, vol. xx. October 1897). 
