40 NATURE AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA 



tlie favourite abiding place of much of the great 

 game of South Africa. But since Sir Charles 

 Warren's expedition, even the blesbok and the 

 springbok have faded out, or nearly so, and only the 

 steinbok and duyker among the antelopes are now 

 certain to be found near the borders of the Transvaal 

 and this part of Bechuanaland. 



Woodhouse Kraal, however, from its combination 

 of bush, water, and grass veldt, came to be known as 

 an excellent and certain find for wildfowl, bustard, 

 and other feathered game ; and in the absence of 

 better sport a good many gunners have had reason 

 to bless this quiet oasis as a sure shooting-ground, 

 affording pleasant days of sport. Besides duck, 

 geese, bustard, and francolin, and the inevitable 

 duyker and steinbok, Woodhouse Kraal and its neigh- 

 bourhood often furnished a charming variety of small 

 bird life. It was a capital place in which to potter 

 about and quietly observe many interesting speci- 

 mens of the up-country avi-fauna, and for this reason 

 the place will always retain a nook in my memory. 



Among the fairest valleys or oases in the vast 

 rolling uplands (sometimes all grass, sometimes grass 

 and forest) of British Bechuanaland, there rise to 

 my mind Matlaping, Mosita, Brussels Farm, New 

 Grennan, and others. With these, Woodhouse 

 Kraal and its bit of characteristic, park-like scenery 

 share a place. 



