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IN AFRICA 
and is not to be found in British East Africa. The 
situtunga is a swamp dweller and is found chiefly in 
Uganda and, to my knowledge, infrequently in the 
East African protectorate. 
The bongo is to the white sportsman what the 
north pole has been to explorers for centuries. In 
all records of game shooting there has been, until 
recently, only one white man who has killed a 
bongo, although the Wanderobo dwellers of the 
deep forests have killed many. 
The bongo lives in the densest part of dense for¬ 
ests, can drive his way through the worst tangle of 
vegetation, and has a hearing and eyesight so keen 
that usually he sees the hunter long before the lat¬ 
ter sees him. A hunt after bongo means long hours 
or even days of hunting the forests, with hardships 
of travel so disheartening that comparatively few 
white sportsmen attempt to go in after the elusive 
antelope. Kermit Roosevelt, however, with the good 
fortune that has followed his hunting adventures, 
succeeded in killing a cow and calf bungo after only 
a few hours of hunting with a Wanderobo. 
A few days after I heard of this piece of good 
luck I was traveling across Victoria Nyanza on one 
of the little steamers that ply the lake. My cabin 
mate was a stoical Englishman who told me quite 
calmly that he had just killed a large bull bongo a 
few days before. He had been visiting Lord Del- 
amere, and after a few hours in the forest had suc¬ 
ceeded in doing what only two white men had done 
before. 
