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desert, if not without trouble, at least safely ; and 

 we met accidentally as I have mentioned 



Anderson was a first-rate elephant hunter, and 

 I believe made a good bag at this pool, which has 

 ever since been marked on the map as Anderson's 

 Vlei. 



The last of my visits to the Kalliharri was in 

 1879, an d although the absence of tsamma circum- 

 scribed the extent of my wanderings from the 

 beaten track via Twaart Modder, Kabeum, and 

 Abekus Pits, I still found plenty of the superb 

 gemsbuck and eland antelopes, and as these can 

 be easily ridden into with a fairly good nag, they 

 afford first-class sport The gemsbuck is about 

 the size and weight of a large donkey, and his 

 action at a gallop is essentially asinine, although 

 he gets along at a good pace and has no end of 

 "stay." The straight horns are often fifty-two 

 inches or more long, and, sharp as a rapier, are 

 splendid trophies comparatively rarely included 

 among the spolia of the African hunter, as the 

 habitat of this animal is confined almost exclusively 

 in South Africa to the desert, although now and 

 then one may be found in or near Matabililand. 

 Formerly I have hunted them on the south of the 



