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supply of running water ; the smaller and more 

 common kind very little exceeds an English wild 

 rabbit in size. Both sorts are indifferent for table 

 use. 



In the northern parts of the Colony and in 

 Griqualand West a few large bustards, called locally 

 " pauws," are occasionally seen, and afford sport 

 for the bullet. Springbucks are also to be had in 

 those districts, and are still to be found in troops 

 of a hundred, or more, in suitable places, i.e. vast 

 bare plains, where they are quite unstalkable, and 

 must be ridden into, or driven, when a, to me 

 very unsatisfactory, random shot into the brown 

 is often obtained. 



Boers are very fond of springbuck shooting, as 

 the majority of them are very poor shots at single 

 objects unless they get a rest for the gun. It is 

 true that by dint of an unlimited expenditure of 

 ammunition they certainly destroy a great deal of 

 game. In the year 1879 I hunted for two months 

 in company with some Boers who made game 

 shooting their business and were considered crack 

 shots. Out of curiosity I kept an account of the 

 number of shots they fired ; the result was that 

 every head of game bagged cost them thirty-two 



