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to be obtained is to be found in the Portuguese 

 province of Angola, where this animal is still 

 abundant and not much hunted. It is worth 

 remembering that in this part of West Africa the 

 Cape buffalo meets the Congo species. On the 

 Coporole, Nimbo, Kuvali, and other rivers of this 

 country, the buffalo is to be found in large herds. 

 It is, however, usually met with in very thick bush, 

 and the chase of game generally in this part of 

 Africa is by no means of that pleasant nature which 

 hunters experienced in the good days of South 

 African shooting. The Upper Zambesi Valley, the 

 little known country between the Zambesi and Congo 

 watersheds, and other parts of Central Africa, form 

 probably the best buffalo ground to be met with at 

 the present day. A few years back the Beira pro- 

 vince, on the south-east coast, was the finest buffalo 

 veldt in all Africa. Enormous herds were to be 

 found in the unhealthy country between the Pungwe 

 and the Zambesi and about the Busi river. Incessant 

 hunting and indiscriminate slaughter have, unhappily, 

 greatly thinned the buffalo in this region, and although 

 fair numbers still exist, they are diminishing rapidly. 

 In a few years, it is to be feared, the Beira province 

 will be as void of buffaloes (and other game) as are 

 now the Limpopo and Zambesi valleys regions where 

 these animals, not long since, so greatly abounded. 

 Small herds of buffalo are still to be met with about 

 the Sabi, Nuanetsi, and other rivers of South-East 

 Africa, and in the remoter parts of Mashonaland they 

 may yet be found. 



