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British Bechuanaland, and as many as thirty or forty in the North 

 Kalahari thirstlands. Occasionally troops are to be met with num- 

 bering as many as eighty or a hundred." (Bryden, 1899, pp. 152, 

 156.) 



"It is still found in the . parched and arid district known as 

 Bushmanland in the north-west of the Cape Colony" (Selous, 1914, 

 p. 66) . By 1920 the species was said to be restricted, in Cape Colony, 

 to Little Namaqualand (Haagner, 1920, p. 159). 



In South-West Africa the Red Hartebeest is more or less numerous 

 in Ovamboland, the Etosha Pan, the Kaukauveld, and the Groot- 

 fontein, Otjiwarongo, Gobabis, and Gibeon Districts, but less nu- 

 merous in other areas (Shortridge, 1934, vol. 2, pp. 450-451 and map 

 opp. p. 452). The more northerly of the areas just mentioned may 

 be occupied by the subspecies evalensis. 



"It is said that the last preserved herd of Cape hartebeest in the 

 Transvaal was annihilated about 1922 when the wholesale slaughter 

 of the wildebeeste was permitted owing to the suspicion that they 

 were carriers of a disease the Boers called 'snotsiekte.' 



"This unfortunate permission was rescinded after a few months 

 for it was found that the disease occurred where there were no wilde- 

 beeste or other wild animals." (C. W. Hobley, in Hit., January 4, 

 1934.) 



"The preservation of the Red Hartebeeste in the Kimberley Dis- 

 trict has had the attention of this Society and the Animal Welfare 

 Society of South Africa. Joint representations on the subject to 

 Messrs. De Beers Consolidated Mines have elicited the information 

 that the Red Hartebeeste in several hundreds are carefully preserved 

 on the farm 'KlipfontehV 40 miles west of Kimberley where a 

 strictly limited amount of hunting occasionally takes place under 

 permit from the Provincial Secretary." (Ann. Rept. Transvaal 

 Branch Comm. Wild Life Protection Soc. South Africa, 1935.) This 

 herd was apparently imported originally from the Transvaal (Lydek- 

 ker and Blaine, 1914, vol. 2, p. 27) . 



The Red Hartebeest "is still comparatively plentiful in Northern 

 and Central Bechuanaland, and in the North-eastern parts of South 

 West Africa to as far north as the Angola border" (G. C. Short- 

 ridge, in litt., 1936) . 



In the future the species will probably receive adequate protec- 

 tion in the Gemsbuck National Park in the Bechuanaland Protec- 

 torate, where it is still fairly numerous. A few are preserved on 

 farms in Cape Province. (J. Stevenson-Hamilton, in litt., February 

 22, 1933.) 



Economic uses. "The skin is, and always has been, in great de- 

 mand among the various Bechuana tribes for making the handsome 

 cloaks affected by these people. 



