The book of antelopes . eVictoria was discovered, in September 1860. Starting from Bagamoyo on theopposite coast, and passing through Usagara, they arrived about two monthslater in Ugogo, then uuder the rule of a native chief called Magomba. Itwas in December I860 during their stay at this place, where they were longdetained by the drunken chief and his wazir, that Speke first met with thepresent Antelope. In the Journal of his travels Speke tells us that whilekept waiting to arrange the amount of his hongo he took the time out inthe jungles very profitably, killing a fine buck and doe Antelop
The book of antelopes . eVictoria was discovered, in September 1860. Starting from Bagamoyo on theopposite coast, and passing through Usagara, they arrived about two monthslater in Ugogo, then uuder the rule of a native chief called Magomba. Itwas in December I860 during their stay at this place, where they were longdetained by the drunken chief and his wazir, that Speke first met with thepresent Antelope. In the Journal of his travels Speke tells us that whilekept waiting to arrange the amount of his hongo he took the time out inthe jungles very profitably, killing a fine buck and doe Antelope of anunknown species. These animals, he continues, are of much about thesame size and shape as the common Indian Antelope, and like them roamabout in large herds, the most marked difference between the two being in 181 the shape of their horns, and in their colour, in which in both sexes theUgogo Antelopes rather resemble the Gazella picticaudata of Tibet, exceptthat the former have dark markings on the face. Fig. Grants Gazelle, Ugogo.(From Spekes Journal of Discovery, p. 61.) The original woodcut of Spekes Journal, drawn by Wolf, as shown by hisinitials, we have now the pleasure of reproducing by the kind favour of thepublishers of that work. It was no doubt executed under Spekes direction,and, although not quite satisfactory according to our present knowledge ofthe animal, gives several views of the shape and size of the horns of GrantsGazelle. Although Speke in his Journal writes of the Ugogo Antelope as beingundoubtedly new, he was at first evidently by no means certain about thispoint, as in a letter addressed to Sclater from Kazeh, in February 1861, hereferred it doubtfully to Gazella soemmerringi. But in a footnote to this 2c2 182 letter (which was published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Societyfor January 1863) Sclater stated his conviction that, so far as could bedetermined from the rough sketch of the horns which accompanied the Fig. 77.
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