CHAPTER V. 



NATIVE SPORTSMEN. 



Duiker Buck Hebes Change of Camp. 







IT is a wonderful circumstance, and especially appli- 

 cable to African antelopes, that between the inner 

 and outer skins are ever to be found great numbers 

 of immense grubs, some of them not unfrequently 

 upwards of an inch in length, which, when exhumed 

 from their domicile, are possessed of great activity 

 and vitality. These larvee must cause great irritation, 

 or even pain, to the animals on which they subsist, 

 and the beautiful little steinbok appears to be more 

 abundantly supplied with these pests than any other 

 of his race. 



The duiker bok (Cep/ialop/ms mergens), of which 

 my companion had also killed a specimen, is a more 

 solid and less graceful animal than the last described; 

 its height and length are also greater, while the 



