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from his wagons, between one hundred and one 

 hundred and fifty rhinoceroses. On another day one 

 hundred giraffes were seen almost at the same time. 

 Other game was found in a like abundance; the 

 water-buck, the pallah,the tsesseby, and other animals, 

 first became known about this time. Many specimens 

 still to be seen in the Natural History Museum bear 

 testimony to the care and labours of this zoologist. 

 Closely following upon Smith's expedition came that 

 of Captain Cornwallis Harris, a sportsman often 

 mentioned in these pages. Harris was a good 

 naturalist and a most enthusiastic sportsman. To 

 these qualities he added the gifts of drawing fairly 

 in water-colour, and of writing very graphic de- 

 scriptions of sport and travel. He and his shooting 

 friend performed prodigies of slaughter among 

 elephants, rhinoceroses (white and black), hippo- 

 potami, lions, Burchell's zebras, quaggas, and some 

 twenty-six species of antelopes, including elands, 

 gemsbok, koodoo, roan antelope, sable antelope (now 

 for the first time discovered and named), water-buck, 

 and others. Harris found elephants in the present 

 Transvaal country (where not a single elephant now 

 remains) in immense numbers. Rhinoceroses were as 

 common as pigs in a farmyard, and were a perfect 

 nuisance to the gunner. Here is a single instance : 

 " On our way from the wagons to a hill not half-a- 

 mile distant, we counted," says Harris in his book of 



