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acteristics and beauty — Discovery in 1837 — Harris's 

 first hunt — A glorious moment — Range of the Sable 

 Antelope — Opening up of Mashonaland — Extirpation 

 of game — Found north of the Zambesi — Specimens in 

 Europe — The Zoological Gardens examples — Chances 

 of survival 263 



CHAPTER XXII 



THE BONTEBOK 



Nearing extinction — A remarkable Antelope — Resem- 

 blance to Blesbok — Appearance — Dangerous when 

 wounded — Present habitat, and numbers — Singular 

 beauty of coat — Former abundance — The old Bonte- 

 bok country — A troop in motion 273 



CHAPTER XXIII 



THE DECADENCE OP GREAT GAME 



Approaching extinction of game — Fifty years since — 

 Present decadence — The chase an irresistible instinct 

 — Famous hunters — Amenemhat I and Thothmes III 

 — Roman waste of animal life — Native hunters — 

 Introduction of firearms — The Cape in 1652 — Crowds 

 of game — The Boers as hunters — Great game in 1796 

 — Hunters and travellers — Burchell — Sir A. Smith 

 — Cornwallis Harris — Other English hunters — The 

 emigrant Boers — Their destruction of game — Great 

 waste of animal life — Gordon Gumming — Immense 

 migrations of Springbok — Baldwin and Selous — 

 Character of the great hunters — Game of Cape 

 Colony in recent years — Game in the interior in 

 1890-91 — A vanishing fauna — Mashonaland — Inef- 

 fectuality of game laws — Proposed park for preserva- 

 tion of game 279 



