They do like the skin, however, for it is of the waterbuck skin that their best sandals are made.

Consequently, when a waterbuck is killed there is a fierce scramble among the porters to secure portions of the hide for this purpose.
The male waterbucks are savage fighters among themselves, and it was not uncommon to see big bulls with one horn gone or with both horns badly broken or marred as a result of the jealous struggle for dominance of a herd of does.
The topi is something like the hartebeest, but much more beautiful and much more rare.

It is over four feet high, with skin of a dark reddish brown, with a silklike bluish gray gloss.

On the shoulders and thighs are bluish black patches and the forehead and nose are blackish brown.
The under parts are bright cinnamon.

We ran across this beautiful antelope only on the Guas Ngishu Plateau, although it is found in one or two other districts in East Africa.