African Nature Notes and Reminiscences

CHAPTER XIII

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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 Pages 239-253