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purpose I will take the colonial boundary as it was 

 best known viz., having the Orange River for its 

 limit to the north, and the Kei River to the east, 

 and not including Griqualand West and Transkeian 

 Kaffraria, which are now- actually under Cape 

 Colonial Government. 



One hundred years ago, then, there were to be 

 found within the territory I have indicated the 

 elephant, black rhinoceros, hippopotamus, buffalo, 

 zebra, quagga, lion, and leopard; and of the 

 antelopes, the roan antelope, eland, hartebeeste, 

 koodoo, gemsbok or oryx, black wildebeeste or gnu, 

 bontebok, blessbok, springbok, rietbok, vaal or grey 

 rhebok, rooi or red rhebok, klipspringer, duyker, 

 boschbok, grysbok or grys steinbok, steinbok, oribi, 

 and the blaauwbok or kleenebok. From this category 

 I have omitted the white rhinoceros (rhinoceros 

 simus) and the giraffe. Both these animals are 

 stated to have been found in the Colony at a remote 

 period ; and, indeed, Barrow, in his travels, asserts 

 that the former of these animals was plentiful in 

 Great Bushmanland in 1796. From the nature of 

 the country, it seems not improbable that this may 

 formerly have been the case, unless scarcity of water 

 in that parched region interfered; but, as the point 

 seems involved in doubt, I have refrained from 

 including this animal. As regards the giraffe, there 

 is no certain and reliable evidence as to its former 

 existence within the Colony ; but it may be pointed 

 out that this animal has, within the last one hundred 

 years or so, been frequently shot within a day or 

 two's journey north of the Orange River (see 

 Paterson's, Le Vaillant's, and Campbell's travels in 

 1777, 1784, and 1813 respectively) ; and, sharply and 



