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and natives in the country. The Boers I met, 

 who knew everything about the game, said nothing ; 

 the Portuguese, who knew nothing, often said 

 too much, and thus gave me wrong information ; 

 the natives answered what they thought would 

 please; and the knowledge of the two resident 

 English hunters, met on my trip, was very local. 



Two game maps of Angola have been prepared 

 and discarded in turn, as likely to become in- 

 creasingly inaccurate with the rapidly diminishing 

 game population of the country. A useful and 

 approximate geographical distribution of the game 

 can, however, br ^i\*en within certain degrees of 

 latitude and longitude. 



The bush cow is mainly found north of the 

 tenth degree of latitude, buffalo to the south of 

 it ; the rhino, zebra, impallah, and spring buck 

 to the south of the fourteenth degree ; the giraffe, 

 brown hysena, and oryx south of the sixteenth, 

 and the latter animal to the west of the four- 

 teenth degree of longitude a distribution which 

 brings it into Mic desert triangle in the south- 

 west of Angola. The kudu is found in most 



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parts of Angola, but mainly to the west of the 

 fifteenth degree of longitude, and the Angolan 

 lech we, wildebeeste, tsessc" e, and hartebeeste to 

 the east of it. The giant sable is largely 

 localized in the Loaiido-Coanza watershed. The 

 following animals are widely distributed, but 

 more numerous in the south than the north : 

 elephant, hippo, wart-hog, eland, bush buck, roan, 

 reed buck, duiker, klipspringer, oribi, water buck, 

 and sitatunga : and the carnivora. The giant 



