BUFFALO 
189 
On our homeward way that evening-, triumphant but 
weary and heavy-laden, we espied towards the outskirts 
of the forest, two big and bulky-looking beasts that in 
the rays of a lowering sun shone silvery-grey. It was 
then too late to undertake a fresh adventure; but we 
(Lowe and I) were convinced that these animals were a 
pair of elands, and that conviction was corroborated by 
Lynes reporting the same evening that he also had seen 
two big pale-coloured beasts with pronounced hump on 
withers, unknown to him. Presumably—almost certainly 
—in both cases the animals seen were elands , and the 
interest of the observation lies in the fact that eland 
(scarce anywhere in the Sudan) are not known to range 
north of Mongalla, 400 miles away. Mr E. S. Grogan, 
however, subsequently informed us that he had met with 
eland (also with lechwi) on a marshy khor running south¬ 
east from the Zeraf River at a point 120 miles from its 
junction with White Nile, and approximately at a similar 
distance from where we saw the presumed elands to-day. 
It is pertinent, however, to add that during the 
remainder of our sojourn in this region, though we daily 
traversed many leagues of these wild woods—and always 
with a special eye for elands—we failed to see them again, 
or to glean any further evidence of their presence therein. 
So ended that nineteenth of February, 1914—a 
memorable date that in my humble hunting-annals 
stands alongside a “Glorious First of September,” as 
recorded in Wild Norway; also with our three lions at 
Nakuru, and four elephants at Solai (plus a rhinoceros 
the same morning!), as chronicled in On Safari; besides 
several others, during forty years, in Wild Spain. 
On the Haunts and Habits of Buffalo 
These virgin forests, with their teeming game, we 
came to regard as our private buffalo-preserve by right 
of discovery, and delightful days we spent therein 
