New Antelope, Ugogo.
and bawling, fighting and tearing, tumbling and wrestling
np to their knees in filth and blood in the middle of
the carcass. When a tempting morsel fell to the possession
of any one, a stronger neighbour would seize and
bear off the prize in triumph. All right was now a
matter of pure might, and lucky it was that it did not
end in a fight between our men and the villagers. These
might be afterwards seen, one by one, covered with blood,
scampering home each with his spoil—a piece of tripe, or
liver, or lights, or whatever else it might have been his
fortune to get off with.
We were still in great want of men; but rather than
ToMagomba's stoP a day,-as all delays only lead to more
Palace, 2m. difficulties, I pushed on to Magomba’s palace
with the assistance of some Wagogo carrying our baggage,
each taking one cloth as his hire. The chief wazir at
once came out to meet me on the way, and in an apparently
affable maimer, as an old friend, begged that I would
live in the palace—a bait which I did not take, as I knew
my friend by experience a little too well. He then, in
the politest possible manner, told me that a great dearth
of food was oppressing the land—so much so, that pretty
cloths only would purchase grain. I now wished to
settle my hongo, but the great chief could not hear of
such indecent haste.
The next day, too, the chief was too drunk to listen to
Halt, 30iA, 1st, any one, and I must have patience. I took
and 2d. out this time in the jungles very profitably,
killing a fine buck and doe antelope, of a species unknown.
These animals are much about the same size and shape as
the common Indian antelope, and, like them, roam about
in large herds. The only marked difference between the O * -j , two is in the shape of their horns, as may be seen by the
woodcut?; and in their colour, in which, in both sexes, the
Ugogo antelopes resemble the picticandata, gazelle of Tibet,
except that the former have dark markings on the face.