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curious fact, and one well worth noticing, that an 

 African hunting dog is capable of overtaking and 

 attacking single-handed such a powerful animal as 

 a male sable antelope. 



On the following day, Cross, Goulden, and Wood 

 came into camp just before sundown. They had 

 shot two white rhinoceroses not more than three 

 miles from the waggons, and that same morning 

 had ridden out and shot a solitary old buffalo cow, 

 the only buffalo seen by any of our party this season. 

 They had also been more fortunate with elephants 

 than Clarkson and myself, for one afternoon as they 

 were sitting in their camp, near the river Zweswe, 

 their Kafirs sighted a herd of these animals coming 

 towards them. They rode after them at once, 

 and the country being very open, and favourable 

 for working with horses, they killed the entire 

 troop, consisting of twenty-one elephants, with the 

 exception of two tuskless ones, which they allowed 

 to escape. 



The next day we sent all the Kafirs and two pack 

 oxen to bring in the meat of the two white rhino- 

 ceroses. I myself took a round to look for oribi 

 antelope, but though I saw several, they were very 

 wild, and I could not manage to bag one. These 

 graceful little antelopes are common about here, 

 and become more numerous towards the north-east ; 

 but to the south-west, in the direction of the 

 Matabele country, I have never seen any after 

 crossing the river Zweswe. They stand higher on 

 their legs than steinbucks, and can be at once 

 distinguished from them by their black tails and 

 ringed horns. They are, ' I think, specifically 

 identical with the oribi of the Cape Colony. Besides 

 on the higher portions of the Mashuna country, I 



