. A hunter's wanderings in Africa, being a narrative of nine years spent amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa, containing accounts of explorations beyond the Zambesi, on the river Chobe, and in the Matabele and Mashuna countries, with full notes upon the natural history and present distribution of all the large M__a_m_m_a_i_a . .Used by the Author in 1S73-74. PLATE VI 1. Impala Antelope ^ (iEpyceros Melampus). Shot on the Chobe river, July 29, 1877. Length of horns, in straight line from point to base, i toot 7 inches. 2. Impala Antelope S (^pyccros Melampus). Shot on the Chobe
. A hunter's wanderings in Africa, being a narrative of nine years spent amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa, containing accounts of explorations beyond the Zambesi, on the river Chobe, and in the Matabele and Mashuna countries, with full notes upon the natural history and present distribution of all the large M__a_m_m_a_i_a . .Used by the Author in 1S73-74. PLATE VI 1. Impala Antelope ^ (iEpyceros Melampus). Shot on the Chobe river, July 29, 1877. Length of horns, in straight line from point to base, i toot 7 inches. 2. Impala Antelope S (^pyccros Melampus). Shot on the Chobe river, Aug. 14, 1879. Length of horns, in straight line from point to base, i foot 8 inches. 3. Springbuck S (Gazella Euchore). Shot near the Molapo river, June 28, 1876. 4. Springbuck S (GazcUa Euchore). Shot at great Chwai salt-pan, Jan. 10, 1881. 5. Blesbuck 9 • Shot on the Transvaal flats, Feb. 28, 1879. 6. Horns of Grey Rhebuck. From near Grahamstown, Cape Colony. 7. Horns of Red Rhebuck. From near Grahamstown, Cape Colony. 8. BusHBucK S (Tragclaphus Sylvaticus). Shot near Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, March 1876. 9. Spotted Bushbuck ^ (Tragclaphus Scriptus). Shot on the Chobe river, near Linyanti, July 27, 1879. 10. Blue Wildebeest (^ (Catoblcpas Gorgon). Shot on the Mababe plain, Oct. 26, of horns, 2 teet 2 8 To face page 164. CHAPTER IX Hippopotami—Lechwc Antelopes—Difficult Shooting—Elephants onthe Chobe —A Plucky little Calf—A Canoe Ride—Makubasand their Island — Return to Pookoo Flats — 400 lbs. ofIvory. On our arrival we found that Mr. Garden was stilldown at the river, but in a few minutes he returned,with two guinea-fowls that he had just shot. Thesebirds abound all along the river, roosting at nights inlarge flocks in the trees close to the waters edge, andare, in my opinion, when young, the best eating ofall the game birds found in the interior of SouthAfrica. Over a savoury stew of elephants heart, werecounted to one anoth
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