An Instance of “Protective Resemblance”

IN Mr. Johnston's interesting account of the ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Equatorial Africa, which appears from time to time in the Daily Telegraph, occurs a passage which seems deserving of being rescued from the comparative oblivion of the pages of a daily newspaper. It will be found in the number of the 16th inst., and is as follows:-``Other noticeable features in the scene were the tall red ant hills and, strange imitation, the tall red antelopes, a species of hartebeest, resembling faintly in shape the form of a giraffe with sloping hind-quarters, high shoulders, and long neck. Being a deep red-brown in colour, and standing one by one stock-still at the approach of the caravan, they deceived even the sharp eyes of my men, and again and again a hartebeest would start up at twenty yards distance and gallop off, while I was patiently stalking an ant-hill, and crawling on my stomach through thorns and aloes, only to find the supposed antelope an irregular mass of red clay.''