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south-east coast between the St. Johns river and the Tugela met 

 with any kudu, but if not, it must have been because these animals 

 had already been exterminated by the natives of Pondoland and Natal. 

 " North of the Tugela the kudu was, until recently, common along 

 every river flowing" into the Indian Ocean, as far north as the mouth 

 of the Buzi along the coast : its range extending along the course of 



Fig. 66. — A young Kudu from the Sudan, in the Zoological Gardens at Giza, 

 from a photograph by Captain S. S. Flower. 



all such rivers and their tributaries, to the edge of the high open 

 plateaus in which they take their rise. On the northern bank of the 

 Zambesi it is again found, and is abundant along the Shire and its 

 tributaries, and in suitable localities throughout British Central Africa ; 

 but, curiously enough, it is unknown along the Pungwi river and its 

 tributaries, and in fact throughout the coast-country between the Buzi 

 river and the Zambesi. About the year 1850 kudu were common in 



