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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



A W^ILD DOG. 



ftut destitute of water. On the morning of tne 22d, having 

 breakfasted, I road southwest, with after riders, and found the 

 game abundant, but wild and shy, having been recently hunted 

 by Boers. 



The wild dogs, or wilde honden," as they are termed by 

 Dutch Boers, are still abundant in the precincts of the Capo 

 colony, and are met with in great numbers throughout the 

 interior. These animals invariably hunt together in large 

 organized packs, varying in number from ten to sixty, and by 

 their extraordinary powers of endurance, and mode of mutual 

 assistance, they are enabled to run into the swiftest, or overcome 

 the largest and most powerful antelope. I have never heard of 

 their attacking the buffalo, and I believe that the animal pursued 

 in the present instance is the largest to which they give battle. 

 Their pace is a long, never-tiring gallop, and in the chase they 

 relieve one another, the leading hounds felling to the rear when 

 fatigued, when others, who have been husbanding their strength 

 lome up and relieve them. Having succeeded in bringing then 



