CHAPTER X 



FOX-HUNTING IN BECHUANALAND 



South African Jackals — True Foxes — The silver-backed Jackal 

 — Motluse Jackal — Small Buck — The veldt as a hunting- 

 ground — South African Horses — Vryburg — The Fox- 

 hounds — My first meet — The find — A run with Duyker — 

 Fast gallop with Jackal — Steinbok hunting — A good run — 

 Sir Frederick Carrington — His record in South Africa — 

 Hunting at the Cape — The Bechuanaland Hounds — 

 Remarkable sport. 



Fox-HUNTiNG in the interior of South Africa, in a 

 country hard upon the Tropic of Capricorn, may 

 seem to the English sportsman rather a misnomer. 

 Yet for some years recently, under the fostering 

 care of that keen and excellent sportsman, Major- 

 General Sir Frederick Carrington, foxhounds and 

 fox-hunting flourished in British Bechuanaland. 



I say fox-hunting advisedly, because the jackals 

 of South Africa, which give such excellent sport 

 before English-bred foxhounds, are, as every naturalist 

 knows, as truly foxes as is Ganis vulpes — Reynard 

 of England — himself. The "foxes" commonly 

 hunted in Bechuanaland are the handsome silver- 

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