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in my earlier sporting days, where game then 

 positively swarmed. However, the English globe- 

 trotting sportsman bent on killing a lion or two 

 need not fear disappointment, although the 

 prevalence of high grass and pretty thick bush 

 militate against making a large bag of such 

 cunning and wary beasts. 



No part of tropical South Africa, indeed, ever 

 within my recollection exhibited such a show of 

 all kinds of game as could be seen on the banks 

 of the Limpopo and on the lower parts of its 

 tributaries further south, where it was, during the 

 fifties, impossible to look from any vantage point, 

 such as an anthill, without seeing numbers of 

 rhinos, giraffes, buffaloes, and smaller game among 

 the thickets of low white thorns which are almost 

 peculiar to the narrow alluvial valley through 

 which the Limpopo winds its tortuous course. 

 Elephants, too, often frequented the banks of the 

 river, but were chiefly abundant on the higher levels 

 of the country around, much of which was then 

 infested by the tsetse fly, which disappeared as the 

 big game became gradually exterminated. 



The valley of the Limpopo and the neighbouring 

 country abounds in the finest pasturage in South 



