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days, the koodoo, thanks to the preservation of 

 English farmers, has increased and multiplied in this 

 locality, and is on a few farms fairly abundant. 

 Shooting takes place for a week in each year ; during 

 the rest of the season the animals remain entirely 

 unmolested. Here is an excellent example of what 

 may be done elsewhere in South Africa by timely 

 and intelligent preservation. 



From the southern portion of Cape Colony — in the 

 district I speak of — not a koodoo is now-a-days to be 

 found until the Orange River is crossed and Griqua- 

 land West is reached. In one or two secluded 

 portions of Griqualand West, I believe a few koo- 

 doos are still to be found. In 1890-91 I first heard 

 of them definitely in the Kalahari regions of South 

 Bechuanaland, in the wild, waterless, bush country 

 just to the south of the Molopo river, upon its west- 

 erly course. All along this waterless portion of the 

 Molopo, koodoos are still to be found. Further north, 

 as I have said, on entering the Northern Protectorate 

 these fine antelopes become more plentiful, until in 

 the Bamangwato country, and thence east, west, and 

 north, they are often found. In Manicaland they are 

 abundant ; but in Swaziland, Ama-Tongaland, and 

 Zululand, where, not long since, they were once to be 

 found in numbers, they are now scarce. In most of 

 the Transvaal and Orange Free State they may be said 

 to be well-nigh extinct, except, perhaps, in the remote 



