LETTER FROM SIR R. G. HARVEY. 
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Martin and I passed the afternoon in endeavouring to per¬ 
suade our guides to go farther on with us, hut all our efforts 
were unavailing. We were, however, lucky enough to persuade 
an old Wa-kopomo who had come into the camp to promise 
to show us the way for a few miles next day. We took the 
precaution to keep him in Martin’s tent all night, in order to 
prevent the Galias from tampering with him. 
We did a short march next day under the guidance of the 
Wa-kopomo, and pitched our camp about half a mile from an 
almost deserted village, the people having nearly all run away 
some days previously and hidden themselves in the bush in con¬ 
sequence of a report that the Somalis were out raiding for slaves. 
When, however, they heard that we had arrived and were 
peaceably inclined, they began coming back to the village. 
Greenfield shot a kuru on the march, which would certainly 
have been lost had not the dogs bayed it in the thick bush. 
On the 15 th, having 110 guides, we took our compasses and went 
off into the bush, having previously taken a good general view 
of the country. We were successful in shooting two wart-hogs, 
one top 4 , and one kuru, and Greenfield also fired at a buffalo. 
Hunter and I had shot so many buffalo about the Masai country 
that we agreed, unless we saw something really grand, to leave 
them alone ; indeed we had that year shot twenty-five really fine 
old bulls, besides one or two others killed at times entirely for 
the pot. 
Next morning, on my return to camp with a particularly fine 
kuru, I found Hunter engaged in photographing the head of 
an animal which I had never seen before. He said that he 
had seen two of them, and after following them up for some 
miles succeeded in bagging one. This animal, on being shown 
to Dr. Gunther, has since been pronounced by him to be an 
entirely new species. It is of a bright red colour, in some 
respects resembling a hartebeest, especially in regard to the 
length of its head, and about the same size, but hardly as high at 
the withers, and has not the same action in moving. The horns 
of the female much resemble those of the male mpallah, but 
