NATURAL HISTORY. 



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GAZELLA. 



Euchure (Gr. Ei5, well ; ^opof, dance), the Springbok. 



to the northward of my camp actually covered with a dense 

 living mass of springboks, marching slowly and steadily along, 

 extending from an opening in a long range of hills on the 

 west, through which they continued pouring, like the flood of 

 soma great river, to a ridge about a mile to the north-east, over 

 which they disappeared. The breadth of the ground they 

 covered might have been somewhere about half a mile. I 

 stood upon the fore-chest of my waggon for nearly two hours, 

 lost in wonder at the novel and wonderful scene which was 

 passing before me, and had some difficulty in convincing my- 

 self that it was reality which I beheld, and not the wild and 

 exaggerated picture of a hunter's dream. During this time 

 their vast legions continued streaming through the neck in the 

 hills in one unbroken compact phalanx. 



" Vast and surprising as was the herd of springboks which 

 I had that morning witnessed, it was infinitely surpassed by 

 what I beheld on the march from my vley to old Sweir's 

 camp ; for on our clearing the low range of hills through 

 which the springboks had been pouring, I beheld the bound- 



