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The following will provide excellent meat, useful 

 hides or both : — 



Eland. Grant's gazelle. 



Waterbuck. Thomson's gazelle. 



Wildebeeste. All the smaller buck such 

 Hartebeeste. as duiker and dik-dik. 



Topi. Young pigs. 



Certain varieties will do him nothing but harm, 

 though some are interesting, and as a naturalist many a 

 settler is prepared to stand the loss rather than risk 

 their extermination. Such are : 



Rhinoceros, Zebra, 



Hippopotamus, Reedbuck, 



Bush pig, 



and apart from the question of food hartebeeste and 

 topi. 



The following varieties are not likely to affect the 

 resident farmer, since they are mainly to be found 

 either in forest or beyond the confines of civilisation ; — 



The elephant. Hunter's antelope. 



Bongo. Soemmering's gazelle. 



Greater Kudu. Peter's gazelle. 



Sable. Grevy's zebra. 



Roan. The giant hog. 



Sitatunga. Hunter's antelope. 



Oryx. Giraffe. 



Gerenuk. Thomas' cob. 



Grant's notata and brightii Lynx. 



