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SAVAGE SUDAN 
(n) Kordofan 
Jamiary 19.—Yesterday evening-, landing an hour 
before dusk, I had shot, in open forest, two red-fronted 
gazelles; but there rankled in mind the memory of a lost 
opportunity. For I had allowed a lovely bushbuck ram 
to pass close by. Daintily he tripped past riverwards, 
and totally unconscious of my presence within 100 yards ; 
but so fascinated were my eyes with his beauty—that 
Harnessed Bushbuck —Kordofan, January 18th, 1914. 
“Daintily tripped riverwards.” 
dark pelage all striped, spotted, and spangled in striking 
patterns—that I waited too long in admiration. Then 
His Majesty entered the zone of the setting sun, where 
aiming (with telescope-sight) becomes impossible, and I 
saw him no more. This was quite the handsomest male 
of the harnessed bushbuck (Tragelephus scriptus) that I 
happened seeing all that season in Sudan—his memory 
is preserved in the annexed unworthy effort to depict 
such animal-beauty—and I resolved, if energy could do 
it, to retrieve the catastrophe next day. 
With that object, and also to secure a good head or two 
