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Show 748 MR. F. C. SELOUS ON AFRICAN ANTELOPES. [J 4. Field-notes on the Antelopes of Central South Africa, made during eight years spent in m a n y different districts of the country. By F. C. S E L O U S. [Received June 17, 1881.] (Plate LXV.) The observations which I now offer to the Society have been made during the different hunting-expeditions which I enumerate below: they are entirely the results of m y own personal experience of the animals themselves, and are not derived from information supplied by native or Dutch hunters. In October 1871 I left the Diamond Fields, and, travelling through Griqualand, struck the Orange River at Keis, and following its northern bank reached Uisip, on the borders of Namaqualand, in the January following, getting back to the Diamond Fields in March. In April 1872 I again left the Diamond Fields, and travelling along the eastern border of the Kalahari desert, through Kuruman, Secheli's town, and Bamangwato, reached the Matabele country, 300 miles to the north-east of the latter place, in the following August. A few days later I started for the Mashuna country, and reached the river Umnyati in September. Here I remained hunting Elephants (principally in the "fly "-infested country to the north-east) until the end of the year. From January to June 1873 I was constantly travelling about the outskirts of the Matabele country, trading and shooting. In the beginning of June, I travelled to the country near the junction of the Gwai and Shangane rivers, and remained hunting Elephants in that district and throughout the mountainous country between the Gwai and the Victoria Falls until the following November, at the end of which month I returned to the Matabele country. From then until the following March I remained in the Matabele country, making a journey across the open downs to the south-east of Inyati and reaching the junction of the Ingezi and Lunti rivers. In the beginning of May 1874 I left the Tati gold-mine, and travelled with m y waggon to Daka, about 60 miles south of the Victoria Falls. In the beginning of June I went on foot to the Falls, and then followed the course of the Zambesi and Chobe rivers to the neighbourhood of Linyanti, where I remained hunting for several months, returning to the waggon in October. I then made another hunting-trip amongst the hills to the east of the Victoria Falls. In the beginning of November (the waggon having started for the Matabele country) I travelled to the junction of the Gwai and Zambesi rivers, and from there cut right across country to the waggon-road, finding the waggon at Thammasetjie. In the end of December I again reached the Matabele country. In February 1875 I travelled down country to Natal and returned to England. In March 1876 I again landed at the Cape, and after a five months' journey, travelling by bullock-waggon through the Cape |