CHAPTER IV 



RAMBLES IN BRITISH BECHUANALAND 



Woodhoiise Kraal — Beautiful scenery — Small game plentiful 

 — Koorliaau-sliooting — The veldt after rain — Duck-shooting 

 — Eed-billed Teal and South African Pochard — The home 

 of the waterfowl — A White Stork shot — Bush Koorhaan — 

 — A brace of Vaal Koorhaan — Similarity in Bustards 

 — Another expedition — Camp and supper — An early start 

 — Quiet shooting— Senegal Bustard — Boer encampment — 

 Plague of flies— Crimson-breasted Shrike— Other small 

 birds — The "dikkop'' Plover— A thunder-storm— Game 

 laws. 



One of the most charming spots in British Bechuana- 



land is Woodhonse Kraal, an oasis of bush, grass, and 



water, set beneath a lonely fragment of rocky and 



very picturesque hill, which juts abrupt and isolated 



from amid the spreading sea of plain. This place 



lies some eight miles east of Setlagoii, not far from the 



Transvaal border. At a few miles' distance, another 



bold ridge of rock — Koodoo's Band — springs from the 



plain; and beyond Koodoo's Band the greater hills 



of Kunana aid successfully, in this district, to break 



the endless monotony of the vast, rolling grass veldt. 



Not very many years back all this country was 

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