. The game animals of Africa . The following account of the history and habits of elephants inSouthern Africa is abbreviated from one furnished by Mr. F. :— With the exception of a limited number [of the West Cape race]preserved in the Zitzikama forests near Mossel Bay and [of the EastCape race] in the Addo bush near Port Elizabeth, together with acouple of herds wandering some years ago in the neighbourhood ofthe Maputa river, south of Delagoa Bay, elephants have been ex-terminated to the southward of the Limpopo. In Khamas country,if we except a few herds which may enter its norther
. The game animals of Africa . The following account of the history and habits of elephants inSouthern Africa is abbreviated from one furnished by Mr. F. :— With the exception of a limited number [of the West Cape race]preserved in the Zitzikama forests near Mossel Bay and [of the EastCape race] in the Addo bush near Port Elizabeth, together with acouple of herds wandering some years ago in the neighbourhood ofthe Maputa river, south of Delagoa Bay, elephants have been ex-terminated to the southward of the Limpopo. In Khamas country,if we except a few herds which may enter its northern fringe during EXTERMINATION IN SOUTH AERICA 9 the rainy season from the district between the Chobi and Okavango,the elephants twenty years ago were reduced to a single herdfrequenting the dense thorn-jungles between Sode Gara and thechain of permanent springs known as Umthlabahanyana. Theseelephants [which belong to the Matabili race] used sometimes to livetogether in one large herd, and at others to break up into several. Fu;. 6.—Fart of the head of the Sudan Elephant, from Heck, Lebende Bildetins dcni Reiche dcr Ticre. parties. In 1884 the entire herd numbered at least a hundred,among which were four huge bulls. Between the Chobi and theZambesi there were numbers of elephants thirty years ago, and somemay still survive. In 1891 I saw tracks of several large herds in thecountry between the Buzi and Pungwi rivers; while in 1892 I cameacross some elephants between the latter river and Lake northern Rhodesia, among the hills and forests lying between lo AFRICAN ELEPHANT the high plateaus and the Zambesi, there was at the same date a goodnumber of elephants, especially in the dense wait-a-bit-thorn jungleto the west of the Gwai river. In these vast areas of country, whichcan never be inhabited by Europeans, elephants will probably continueto roam for centuries, even without special protection, as the nativesof Matabililand and Mashonaland, if not completely disarme
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