BURCHELL'S ZEBRA 



morning, when the plan of campaign was explained 

 and discussed, the party, mounted on sturdy and 

 well-trained shooting ponies, climbed the steep and 

 rocky track which leads from behind the house up 

 the face of a mountain spur, and reaching the sum- 

 mit, rode on across the main ridge and down the 

 slope on the other side, into the broad and open 

 valley beyond, where lay the carefully-planned 

 centre of operations, the scheme of which will now 

 be described. 



" Across the valley, and over the mountains in 

 either direction, runs the boundary fence of the farm, 

 miles of wire, which even the wild Zebra will seldom 

 attempt to negotiate. From a suitable point in 

 this boundary fence, a wing of wire fencing had been 

 run out to a distance of 200 yards, at an angle of 

 about 50°, while at the apex an opening was left 

 leading into a strongly-constructed wire kraal, a 

 cul-de-sac. This was the pivot of the rounding-up 

 movement, the object being, of course, to work 

 the Zebras into the space between the fences, and to 

 drive them down into the kraal. Four horsemen 

 were extended in line with the wing fence to guard 

 against a rush past its outer end, while a dozen or 

 more rode behind the hills to the left, sending some 

 of their number round the head of the valley to the 

 hills on the other side ; thus, with the wire fencing, 

 completely encircling the area where it was expected 

 that the game would be found. One small troop 

 had already been sighted, but as the arrangements 



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