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are found far from water. Of the carnivora, the lion and the leopard 
and the smaller cats are only found within a comparatively short 
distance of the rivers, but the wild dog (Lycaon pictus) hunts far 
into the Desert. 
ConcLuping Remarks, 
Inaccessible, the greater part uninhabited and uninhabitable, 
Ngamiland can never b he on 
Boer settlement, who eke out a precarious existence by “ transport- 
riding.” There are no European missionaries now resident in the 
country. Hitherto, despite great efforts, there has been a complete 
failure to discover mineral wealt » and, except as a pastoral 
country, and that only within a reasonable distance of the river- 
ranean supplies of water exist in the Desert, which, if tapped, 
would convert the land into one of the most fertile regions. § 
alapye. But this route involves a journey of some 500 miles by 
dreaded “ thirsts,” and the remainder along the Botletli Valley over 
terribly heavy sand in the dry season, and through a very malari- 
ous region during the rains, * [ understand it is in contemplation 
The ee of the Kalahari as a future stock-raising 
epend entirely on success in opening up water-supplies. 
ut, a8 regards the river area and adjacent country, there are 
possibilities for irrigation on a large scale. In this connection I 
