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IN AFRICA 
both the male and female carry horns. Those of the 
latter are usually larger and slenderer, but the skin 
of the female is not so handsomely marked as that 
of the male. 
It is hard to get near an eland, but as the bull is 
nearly six feet high at the shoulders it is not espec¬ 
ially difficult to hit him at three hundred yards or 
more. The one I shot was three hundred and sixty- 
five yards away and carried beautiful horns, 
twenty-four and one-quarter inches in length. The 
head of the great bull eland makes a wonderfully 
imposing trophy when placed in your baronial halls. 
In the foregoing list of antelopes I have tried to 
tell a little about the types of that class of animal 
that I met in my African travels—in all, sixteen 
species of antelope. My chief excuse for doing it 
is to enable people at home to know the difference 
betwen a topi and a sun hat and between a sing-sing 
and a cob. The names of many of the African 
antelope family are strange and confusing, so that 
it is little wonder that they mystify people in 
America. There are a hundred or more kinds, and 
no one can hope to know them unless he makes a 
business of it. 
I have not seen the grysbok, or the suni, or the 
dibitag, or the lechwi, or the aoul, or the gerenuk, 
or the blaauwbok, or the chevrotain, or lots of 
others, but who in the world could guess what they 
were or what they looked like, judging only from 
the names? 
