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like filberts. They grow in pairs in a large husk. The 
Amatongas’ cuisine is decidedly superior to that of 
the Zulus, but the traveller will nowhere find in their 
country the rich amas, which is to be had amongst 
the Zulus. 
2hth.— Hearing from the Kaffirs that there were 
inyala in the bush, I sallied out, but without success, 
until nearly sunset, when, as I was returning home, the 
Amatongas showed me two inyalas feeding—the first 
I had ever seen. I succeeded in bagging the stag, a 
most beautiful dark silver grey buck, with long mane 
and very long hair like a goat. He is of the bush buck 
species, but on a much larger scale than the inconka 
of the colony, with long spiral horns, tanned legs, 
very long hair on his breast and quarters; a 
beautiful animal weighing from 250 to 300 pounds, 
and very fierce when wounded. They inhabit the 
coast from this to Delagoa Bay, and are numerous ; 
the does are often to be seen in large herds, and are 
likewise very beautiful, resembling a fallow deer, but 
of a much darker red, striped and spotted with 
white; they have no horns, and are half the size of 
the stag, and nowhere else in Africa have I met with 
them. I had some trouble in getting him, and must 
have lost him but for Fly, who brought him to bay 
several times. I gave him a slanting shot through 
the shoulder, and out at the neck, and tumbled him 
over, but he was on his legs again in an instant, and 
dashed into the bush. When I at last secured him I 
thought I should never have sufficiently admired him ; 
