THE GNOO. 



AMONG the animals most frequently met with by Mr. Gum- 

 ming, in South Africa, were the zebra and the gnoo. We 

 have already noticed the latter. The former is hunted by 

 the natives with spears and assagais. The following extract 

 shows that Mr. Gumming sometimes shot them. 



On the morning of the 23d, I rode east with after-riders 

 and a pack-horse. The country through which we passed 

 resembled a vast interminable park, being adorned with a 

 continued succession of picturesque dwarfish forest trees, single 

 and in groups. Such, with the exception of a few grassy 

 open plains, is the character of the country from Sikagole, 

 as far as the mountains of Bakatla. We failed to fall in with 

 elands, but I succeeded in bringing down two zebras and a 

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