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shillings, has to be procured, but as a rule, in 

 answer to a civil request, few are churlish enough 

 to refuse permission to shoot on their properties. 



Few of the Africander population care much 

 about shooting anything, but now and then an 

 antelope if an easy pot shot is available ; but to 

 work for feathered game on foot in English fashion 

 has no sufficient attraction. Once outside a radius 

 of a few miles from the larger towns shooting is 

 practically free, and information as to the best 

 kinds of game specified ; a licence, costing ten 

 nature of various localities, and the habits of the 

 localities for sport easily obtainable. Even within 

 eighty or one hundred miles of Cape Town these 

 remarks apply, and very fair bags of francolin, of 

 two varieties, and of a bustard, called koorhaam, 

 are to be made in many localities ; nor are the 

 smaller antelopes, such as grysbock, steinbuck, and 

 " duiker " by any means scarce on the more level 

 parts of the country, and wildfowl of various sorts 

 are a certain find in sufficient numbers in suitable 

 places. 



On the lower slopes of the mountains the buck 

 antelopes (which weigh about 60 lb., clean) are 

 mostly to be found in small troops of from three 



