. Pioneers in South Africa . MOUNTAIN ZEBRA. QUAGGA As the White Man first saw it 25 black rhinoceroses with pointed upper lips, and whiterhinoceroses with square muzzles and very long fronthorns. Buffaloes, zebras, springbok, and several otherkinds of antelopes grazed over northern and eastern CapeColony and Bechuanaland, literally in millions—judgingby what the white pioneers saw a hundred, and even fifty,years ago, and what some few white explorers (includingthe present writer) have had the privilege of seeing aslately as ten years ago in East Africa. There were like-wise in every part of t
. Pioneers in South Africa . MOUNTAIN ZEBRA. QUAGGA As the White Man first saw it 25 black rhinoceroses with pointed upper lips, and whiterhinoceroses with square muzzles and very long fronthorns. Buffaloes, zebras, springbok, and several otherkinds of antelopes grazed over northern and eastern CapeColony and Bechuanaland, literally in millions—judgingby what the white pioneers saw a hundred, and even fifty,years ago, and what some few white explorers (includingthe present writer) have had the privilege of seeing aslately as ten years ago in East Africa. There were like-wise in every part of the country troops of lions, whichfed on the great herds of antelopes, zebras, and buffaloes. According to Sir James Alexander, an early ex-plorer of Namakwaland, who wrote in 1838, lions of fourdifferent varieties were to be seen in south-west Africain the early nineteenth century; the ordinary pale-brownkind, black lions (like black leopards), white—albino—lions, and a fourth variety, the most interesting of all,in which the dark spo
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