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EAST AFRICA AND ITS BIG GAME. 
thought I had made a miss. The bullet, however, had 
smashed the heart and lungs, and yet the poor creature 
ran right across the open into the bush about two 
hundred yards distant, and then climbing a small ant- 
heap, dropped in his tracks on gaining the summit. 
The busli-buck is a pretty little antelope about twice as 
heavy as a roe-buck, of dark grey colour tinged with 
red, with faint white stripes on the quarters and neck ; 
the horns, about twelve inches in length, grow close 
together and are somewhat twisted. 
We killed a few Egyptian geese, beautiful plumaged 
birds but very tough eating, and some black ibis. I 
also caught a few fish averaging from one to two lbs., 
and a silurus weighing five lbs.; I hooked a very 
heavy fish, but did not play him long enough, for no 
sooner had I brought him to the surface than he broke 
the hook. I just caught sight of him as he went away, 
and feel almost certain the creature was a gigantic 
eel. I wish I had landed him, as I believe, if it 
had proved to be an eel, it might have been a new 
discovery, for from the inquiries I made, I am led to 
believe that eels have been rarely, if ever, found in 
African rivers. 
The last day of our stay here I shot another very fine 
buffalo, and in rather a lucky way. I walked a long 
distance without seeing anything but mpallah and 
water-buck, though from a rocky ridge I could view 
a magnificent plain crawling with zebra, hartebeest, 
buffalo, ostriches, mpallah, and in the far distance a big 
herd of eland ; but as they were not on my beat, 1 was 
