HUNTING THE SPRINGBOK. 



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THE SPRINGBOK. 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 



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HUNTING THE SPRINGBOK AND THE QUAGGA. 



NDOUBTEDLY, Mr. Cum- 

 mings' descriptions of hunting 

 scenes in Africa are among the 

 liveliest, freshest, and most gra- 

 phic "incidents of travel" which 

 have yet appeared. The fol- 

 lowing is his account of spring- 

 bok and quagga hunting. 



On the morning of the 9th, 

 Stryciom and I having resolved 

 over night to go in quest of a 



of ostriches which his Hottentot reported, frequenting the 

 plains immediately adjacent to the Thebus Mountain, we started 

 our Hottentots two hours before the dawn of day ; and after an 

 early breakfast we saddled up, and rode direct for the Thebas 

 Mountain. This remarkable mountain, which I shall ever remem- 

 ber as ihe leading feature on the plains where I first really com- 

 menced my African hunting, is of peculiar shape, resembling a 



