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the clearings, once the site of large villages, prove 

 beyond a doubt. 



These people belonged to various sections of the 

 Makalaka tribe, and on being driven from their 

 towns and corn-fields, fled across the Zambesi ; 

 whither their ruthless destroyers, being without 

 canoes, were unable to follow them. The different 

 species of animals that I noticed in this district, were 

 elephant, black and white rhinoceros, buffalo, zebra, 

 sable and roan antelope, koodoo, impala, reedbuck, 

 wild boars (both the wart-hog and the bush-pig), 

 klipspringer, and grys steinbuck, whilst near the Gwai 

 are found many water-buck, and a beautifully striped 

 and spotted variety of the bush-buck. Between the 

 borders of the hills and Linquasi, a great part of the 

 country is covered with dense thickets of wait-a-bit 

 thorn, called by the natives " Isinanga," alternating 

 with open goussy forests. Here, in addition to most 

 of the game enumerated above, elands and giraffes 

 are also found. ^ 



In illustration of the kind of hunting in which I 

 was engaged during the season, I think I cannot do 

 better than make a few extracts from my journal 

 concerning some ot the most interesting of my 

 experiences, parts of which were published a few years 

 ago in the columns of the Field newspaper : — 



Having made a trial trip of a fortnight's duration 

 into the "fly," during which I had shot seven 

 elephants, amongst them two fine bulls, I found my- 

 self, in the commencement of August, in the hilly 

 country near the confluence of the Gwai and Shangani 

 rivers, where I had been hunting during the past ten 

 days with but slight success, having'only come across 

 one troop of elephant cows, four of which I had 

 brought to bag. So I now determined to try the 



