SPORT IN MOZAMBIQUE 



africanus 1 ), a species of swine inhabiting a burrow, 

 which it quits only to feed and wallow, at the hottest 

 time of day, in a neighbouring marsh. Grey in colour, 

 it is furnished with a mane and a fairly long tail ; its 

 face is surmounted by four warts ; the tusks are 

 very large ; I killed one with tusks of 8£ inches in 

 length. When wounded, it is by no means amiable, 

 and sometimes charges. The Kafirs call it jiri. 



A few hours afterwards I killed a fine cow of Lichten- 

 stein's hartebeest (Bubalis licktensteini). This is the 

 most abundant game of the colony j I have often 

 found it in troops. Of the size of a two-year-old colt, 

 it has the withers elevated. Its coat, tawny in the 

 females and young males, is redder in the old bulls 1 ; 

 the back is marked by a black line. The head is 

 long and surmounted, in both sexes, with horns which 

 bend backwards at right angles in the middle of their 

 length. The Kafirs highly esteem the meat of this 

 antelope, which they call godonga. Its hide serves 

 for their bow-strings and for the heads of their dance 

 dresses. 



Having with me only two negroes, I leave them 

 to pass the night by the beast ; and, as it is late, I 

 return alone. On the way I encounter a strange 

 animal which I kill. It is a pangolin ; an edentate 

 which only comes forth in the evening, at dusk, to 

 seek the ants forming its food. It attacks the ant-hill 

 with its powerful claws ; and when the inhabitants, 



1 The author uses the obsolete name Sus phacochoerus. 

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