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In the Heart of Africa 
by night to the watercourses, but remains concealed in shy 
seclusion during daylight. According to the experiences of 
Europeans familiar with the Congo, many tracks have been found 
quite close together, as though produced by the passing of a 
herd. Although we have not had an opportunity of proving 
the truth of this statement, it certainly seems that the okapi is 
not so rare as has been generally accepted, for, as already 
mentioned, one often comes across girdles made from its hide. 
Again, the animal is familiar to all the forest dwellers. 
The title “kenge” was often also applied to another variety 
of antelope, which equals the okapi in size. This is the great 
striped antelope (Booceros spec.)y which exists throughout the 
Congo forest. On the eastern edge of the forest it is called 
“ soli,” and ‘‘ bongo ” in the Middle and Lower Congo. The 
buttocks are far less striking than those of the okapi. A further 
mark of difference is that it bears horns about 50 centimetres in 
length, which undoubtedly betrays its kinship with the bush- 
buck. The horns have the same peculiar twist, and are quite of 
the bush-buck type. The skin is light and covered on the back 
with a number of uniform white stripes, similar to those of the 
elephant antelope. Fortune favoured us in this connection, for 
we managed to obtain a skin and a skeleton from the forest 
dwellers. 
Another pleasant surprise for us was the acquisition of a 
brown hide, showing a yellow stripe along the back which grows 
broader from withers to tail; it comes from an animal named 
lotzi ” by the Wambuba, and “ dotzi ” by the Wambutti. We 
were further able to enrich our collections with the hide of a 
brownish-silver-grey sort of antelope called “sindo” in King- 
wana, “ haissuku ” in Kinande, and a light brown coloured one, 
the “munso.” The two latter belong to the dwarf type. Both 
were dedicated to a German museum as the first examples of 
their kind. 
A three days’ halt in a former pygmy camp resulted in a 
few specimens of monkeys—after some real hard stalking—and 
Wiese contributed an elephant which, to judge by its general 
