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ill some numbers. Towards Langeberg, beyond 

 Kuruman, there are a good many troops here and 

 there, though the Dutch farmers are thinning them 

 out. And upon the dry, waterless course of the 

 lower Molopo, and in the Kalahari beyond, they are 

 to be found in considerable troops. All through 

 the Kalahari and upon the desert western fringe of 

 the Bechuanaland Protectorate, these antelopes are 

 fairly plentiful. In Khama's desert country, and 

 right through the dry wastes of the North Kalahari 

 region ; and about the vast flats and salt-pans of the 

 Botletli river country, Ngamiland, large troops of 

 hartebeest are often met with. I found them too 

 in the waterless forests frinojinoj the south bank of 

 this river. These latter regions of the North 

 Kalahari and Ngamiland may, indeed, be said to 

 be now the true head-quarters of the hartebeest in 

 Southern Africa. The South African range of this 

 antelope extends a little north of the Botletli to 

 the Mababi river. Upon the western borders of 

 Namaqualand and Damaraland the hartebeest is 

 still also to be found, as well as here and there in 

 the remoter and less settled portions of the North- 

 West Transvaal. Curiously enough, the eastward 

 range of the true hartebeest seems to end suddenly 

 at Matabeleland, in which country, as in Mashona- 

 land, it is, according to Mr. Selous, unknown. Mr. 

 Selous gives its easterly limit as the Serule river, on 



