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vicinity of a vley well known as the favourite haunt 

 of both pauw and kooran. While we rode off the 

 oxen were being mustered for trekking, as it was 

 resolved to change our camp to a fresh locality ten 

 miles in our front, for we had heard that springbok 

 already had been seen in that neighbourhood, probably 

 the advance guard of the trekbokken, or migrating 

 herds of this animal, that annually inundate the colony 

 in such immense numbers as to cause astonishment 

 in the beholders as to where they came from and 

 whither they are going. 



A trekbokken is one of the things in this world 

 that a sportsman ought to witness, for it is a most 

 extraordinary sight, both from the number of animals 

 composing the migratory herd and the effect that 

 their movements and presence produce upon the 

 surface of the landscape. 



When I was in Africa ten years ago the number 

 of springbok was so much greater than at the present 

 time that I fear, if the reduction of this game goes 

 on in the same ratio as it has done, one of the most 

 wonderful exhibitions of animal life that can be beheld 

 will entirely cease. 



The extinction of the springbok (Gazelia euchore] 



