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you to take on a buffalo and, to be candid, I will back 
Bos Caffer.’ But I was wrong. After that, a buffalo 
did tackle him but he got through all right. ... I did 
not then reckon on Man ; but assuredly we shall learn, 
when details come through, that it was only numbers — 
overwhelming numbers—that did it.” This prediction 
has proved quite true. Stigand lay surrounded by dead 
Dinkas. Retribution, it gratifies to add, followed prompt 
and exemplary. 
Delightful are the open woodlands behind Mongalla 
and full of happy memories. Of big-game the reed- 
bucks show exceptionally fine heads—up to 15 inches— 
and abound to the extent of being a nuisance, as they 
often interfere with a more important stalk. There is 
also a sprinkling of bushbuck, though here, as else¬ 
where, their nocturnal habits tend to screen these from 
observation. 
Both roan antelope and cob are common enough 
locally, as is also Jackson’s hartebeest, with possibly 
some few of “Neumann’s,” of which latter Lieut. G. P. 
Monk shot an example in 1914. Waterbuck and tiang 
abound, with some ostriches and buffalo locally. We 
met with wart-hog and duiker (the latter a little north 
of Mongalla), oribi and gazelles-—the latter, doubtless, 
of the newly-distinguished “Mongalla” species ( Gazella 
albonotatd ), though I was unaware of its existence 
at the time. 
Giraffe abound; also zebra, Major Stigand informed 
me, in increasing numbers, herds of fifty or more 
occurring within 10 or 20 miles of Mongalla—this, the 
northernmost race of zebra, being characterised by 
having pure white ears. Black rhinoceros, though rela¬ 
tively scarce according to East-African standard, are 
also increasing and described as “apt to be truculent,” 
though that may signify no more than their well- 
understood and characteristic temperament. I struck 
new spoor of rhinoceros inland of Bohr. Eland have 
