A FIRST PRIZE OF SUDAN 
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It was dusk ere we regained Candace —triumphant, 
but bemired to the eyes, blackened with charred reeds, 
pierced in every limb, and with khaki clothes cut to ribbons 
by canes and spear-grass. Never do I recollect a more 
exhausting stalk. 
My trophies measured :— 
Length of Horn 
on Curve. 
Basal 
Circumference. 
Spread, 
between Tips. 
Height at 
Shoulder. 
No. 1 
No. 2 
27J inches 
26^ „ 
7^ inches 
21 \ inches 
*5i » 
39 inches 
38 ,) 
The wide “spread” of No. i amply corroborates our 
correct eye-judgment as formed at the first, distant view; 
while the worn-down annulations showed this (indeed 
both) to be aged animals. 
Curiously these two saddle-back rams were the only 
first-rate males of their kind that we happened to see 
this year during a whole month spent in their haunts; 
though the previous winter (1912-13) I had met with 
quite a number, including troops of twenty and upwards. 
In 1919, a single ram that appeared quite of champion 
class, stood meditatively at almost the identical spot; and 
both these winters we saw others of minor merit. 
The same evening I drew up a full and formal report 
of the incident—practically the above yarn (which now 
doubtless reposes among stored archives of the Sudan)—■ 
addressed to the Superintendent of the Game Depart¬ 
ment of the Sudan Government. That Authority was, 
I am convinced, satisfied with its bona fides; but, being 
an esteemed personal friend of my own—to wit, Mr A. L. 
Butler—preferred to leave its adjudication to the Sirdar, 
Sir Reginald Wingate, who exonerated me from blame, 
while confiscating the second trophy! The justice of 
the latter condition is self-evident. 
The game-regulations in our East-African Colonies 
