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to the contrary, is the only exception to the general 

 rule ; but then, I am bound to add, my piscatorial 

 tastes are but feebly developed. 



But it is time to offer a few remarks on the 

 sport to be obtained at no great distances from 

 Colonial limits, or at all events now easily acces- 

 sible. In the settled parts of the Transvaal all 

 kinds of game are very scarce. If desirous of 

 getting a few specimens of the large class, the 

 only reliable localities must be sought in or near 

 the Lebombo boundary and along the line which 

 marches with the Gaza country towards the lower 

 waters of the Limpopo. Here a few elephants 

 still roam restlessly, a rhino may be shot, and 

 giraffes are not difficult to be found, as well as 

 a few buffaloes and, in suitable places, hippos. 

 Lions are also fairly represented, but owing to long 

 grass and dense bush are difficult to find. Elands 

 are not quite extinct, and fair numbers of koodoos, 

 sable antelopes, brindled gnus, quaggas, road ante- 

 lopes, waterbucks, hartebeestes, palla, bushbucks, 

 ostriches, reitbucks, and wart-hogs inhabit the 

 veldt here and there. The drawbacks in these 

 parts are great mortality among horses at all times 

 (exclusive of perhaps a few weeks in June and 



