. Matabele land and the Victoria Falls : a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa, from the letters and journals of the late Frank Oates . re gameseemed more than usually abundant. This was theplace where the road branches off from the Rama-queban across the veldt again towards the Tati. I now feel, he writes at this point, on August13th, to be realizing almost for the first timesome of my old visions of South African , soon after starting, I ascended a kopjenear the waggons, and saw a large herd of roughly, I made out a hundred. It wasa beautiful s
. Matabele land and the Victoria Falls : a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa, from the letters and journals of the late Frank Oates . re gameseemed more than usually abundant. This was theplace where the road branches off from the Rama-queban across the veldt again towards the Tati. I now feel, he writes at this point, on August13th, to be realizing almost for the first timesome of my old visions of South African , soon after starting, I ascended a kopjenear the waggons, and saw a large herd of roughly, I made out a hundred. It wasa beautiful sight. All around was the sea of bush,with here and there bare patches, and here andthere kopjes—some of the latter far distant. Thewinding spruits, too, lay as in a map. The quaggaswere quietly moving on, or standing and playing, orbrushing away the flies. It was a scene such as Iused to fancy must be common, and which probablywas so when the accounts I have read were written,and may occur often still in more remote districts. The day previous the traveller had shot koodoo,hartebeest, and pallah, and seen an immense herd of LARGE HERD OF GAME. 195. KLIPSPRINGER. — Orcot-agiis saltatnx.(Height about 20 inches.) quagga and blue wildebeest, numbering not farfrom a hundred of each sort. Amongst the lesserantelopes, the graceful kllpspringer, found only inthe hills, was met with in this district. Resuming his journey to the north-west on the15th, and travelling through mopani veldt, he againstruck the Tati River in the afternoon at the samepoint where the pleasing character of the sceneryhad been first observed by him when he was heretwo months before. A spring or fountain offresh water welled up at the foot of a picturesquekopje, and a mile or two up the river was abundanceof water in the river-bed. 196 MATABELE LAND. The river here, writes the traveller at thelatter point, flows to the south through a deepsandy bed, kopjes hemming it in on either scenery is remarkably
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