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would be so suitable and valuable for stock that 

 its coming extermination in Angola is deplorable. 

 Its chief enemy at present is the Boer, who destroys 

 large numbers, riding them down and shooting 

 them when they are exhausted a singularly easy 

 performance, for the pace of the eland being a 

 trot rather than a gallop, he invariably becomes 

 winded and exhausted if kept for over a mile at 

 the faster pace. In the eastern portion of the 

 colony, the Livingstone or striped race of the 

 eland is found, but there may be more than one 

 race in Angola. The heavy twisted horn of the 

 eland, surmounting a handsome tufted head, and 

 the massive neck, with its curious dewlap, form 

 unfortunately for the animal an unusually attrac- 

 tive trophy. The track is cattle-like, but smaller, 

 with more splay and sharper toe-points, and the 

 eland's legs being longer than those of cattle, 

 the tracks are much wider apart. The dung is 

 characteristic. 



The KUDU (Strepsiceros capensis) (Onjili in 

 Umbundu) has a wide but more definite distri- 

 bution than the eland, being found throughout 

 Angola to the west of the fifteenth degree of 

 longitude, but while present in these parts of 

 north Angola, and even on the Congo, they are 

 probably more numerous in the coast land from 

 Loanda southwards. This antelope, which many 

 consider, owing to the glorious spiral twist of 

 horns, measuring up to 5 feet or more in length, 

 the finest trophy in Africa, has only a peer in 

 the giant sable of Angola. The grey kudu loves 

 the bare grey -brown hills of the Angolan coast 



