CHAPTER XIV. 



GREAT HERDS OF GAME. 



Author's Reasons for Collecting these Details. Ancient Records 

 generally Regarded as Exaggerated. Reasons for accepting them as 

 True in many Cases. How Immense Herds come to be Found in 

 Sterile Tracts. Assemblages of Great Herds caused by Drying up of 

 the Waters, or Famine. Alternatives to Game, when Flying before 

 Drought and Famine. Human Settlers and Migrator)' Herds. The 

 " Fly" in the Bush Country. Antelopes Unable to Remain Stationary 

 there. The Great Buffalo Herds of Texas. The Northern and the 

 Southern Migrations. The True Cause of the Assemblage of Great 

 Herds is Want of some Kind. The Fallacy that Large Animals 

 Require a Luxuriant Vegetation. Tree Feeders. Mr. Burchell and 

 Capt. Burton on the Scarcity of Large Quadrupeds in Great Forests. 

 Average Weight of the Principal Big-Game Animals. The Desert 

 Vegetation During Droughts. Fragrance of Aromatic Herbage. Perfume 

 Emitted by Skins &c. of Desert Game. Grass Fires as a Cause of 

 Formation of Herds of Game. Retrospect of the Great Hunting Days. 

 A Day's Game Display on the South African Veld 60 Years Ago. 

 Capt. Cornwallis Harris in South Africa in 1836 (Sketches of Great 

 Herds). Mr. Gordon Gumming on the Migration of Springbucks. Sir 

 Samuel Baker in Defence of Mr. Gordon Gumming. Boer Battue of 

 Antelopes. Sir Samuel Baker upon Herds of Game in Ceylon. Hartley 

 the English Hunter. Mr. James Chapman at an African Drinking Pool 

 by Night. The Same on a Great Herd of African Buffalo. The 

 Same on Great Herds on the Botletli River. Herds upon the 

 Lake Ngami Plains. Dr. David Livingstone on Great Herds on 

 the Zambesi. Description of a Day and a Night in the African 

 Wilderness in a Great Game Country. Elephants and Elephant 

 Hunting. Mr. F. C. Selous on a Vast Herd of Buffalo. Game on the 

 Chobe River. The Great Buffalo (Bison) Herds of North America 

 Francis Parkman the Historian upon. Lieut. Ruxton on Great Buffalo 

 Herds. A Buffalo Stampede. The Buffalo Robe Crop of the Far 

 West. Herds of American Elk and Cariboo. Herds of Deer in 

 Persia. Australian Rabbits. Game at the Present Day. Mr. Pringle, 

 the Poet of South Africa. Ode "Afar in the Desert." Literary Reminis- 

 cences of Pringle. Coleridge's Admiration of His Desert Poem. 



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