. The story of Africa and its explorers. t the SouthAfrican colonists protect them as they may—follow the white rhinoceros and the Natal redbuck* is everywhere rare. Thebontebuck f in Harriss day was not verycommon; yet it was still found in ZoetendalsVley, near Cape Agulhas, and was abundantin the interior. Indiscriminate, wilful, andsenseless slaughter has rendered it practicallyextinct. Indeed, it cannot now be classedamonof the wild Q^ame of South Africa, and Eglinton being acquainted with name of which recalls Major Vardon, a famoussportsman of Livingstones day, a
. The story of Africa and its explorers. t the SouthAfrican colonists protect them as they may—follow the white rhinoceros and the Natal redbuck* is everywhere rare. Thebontebuck f in Harriss day was not verycommon; yet it was still found in ZoetendalsVley, near Cape Agulhas, and was abundantin the interior. Indiscriminate, wilful, andsenseless slaughter has rendered it practicallyextinct. Indeed, it cannot now be classedamonof the wild Q^ame of South Africa, and Eglinton being acquainted with name of which recalls Major Vardon, a famoussportsman of Livingstones day, and the manwho first made Europe famihar with the tsetse-fly (Vol. II., p. 67), then and for long pre-viously much too-well known in South Africa,is now confined to a small area near theplace where the Chobe joins the Zambesiand does not seem ever to have had amuch wider range. The poor quality of itsflesh will not save it from the natives, thoughpossibly Mr. Selous verdict ** that in flavourit is several shades w^orse than that of the. MR. H. A. BRYDEN AND FEIEXDS OK TREK AT MOEOKWENG. {From a Photograph by Mr. Bryden.) it only as the semi-domesticated mhabitant ofa farm near Swellendam, in Cape reedbuck,J once found wherever reedsand water abounded, is now confined to some ofthe rivers in the north-eastern districts of theTransvaal, while in Bechuanaland it is practi-cally exterminated. To see the rooibuck, orpallah,§ once so plentiful in Bechuanaland, thebushy country bordering the Limpopo mustbe reached, while the pookoo,|| the scientific * Cephalolophus natalensis. J Cervicajrra Bamalis ])ygargvs. % JEinjceros melamjiius. II Koius i-ardonif waterbuck, usually considered the mostunpalatable of all the South African antelopes,may preserve it from the pot-hunter, thoughits comparative rarity will be its doom asa museum specimen. Finally, not to enumer-ate various antelopes too scarce or tooslenderly marked to have obtained popularnames, the waterbuck
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