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African Nature Notes and Reminiscences

by Frederick Courteney Selous

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Chapter XIII A Journey to Amatongaland (Concluded)

Receive information concerning the haunts of the inyala—Heavy thunderstorm—Start for Gugawi’s kraal—Cross the Usutu river—Reach Gugawi’s—Go out hunting—Crested guinea-fowl seen—Two inyalas shot—Angas’s description of the inyala antelope—Inyala skins prepared for mounting—Now safe in Natural History Museum—A third inyala shot—One missed—Move farther up the Usutu river—Country denuded of game—Bushbucks scarce—Hippopotamuses in river—Heavy thunderstorm—Two more male inyalas shot—Start on return journey to Delagoa Bay—Tedious journey—Intense heat—End of trip—Slight attacks of fever

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