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stringy, and it is fashionable to speak of it as uneatable. 

 As a matter of fact the flesh of most adult male antelopes 

 is hard and tasteless, if cast fresh into the cooking-pot 

 and boiled to a rag by the untrained raw native who is 



WATERBUCK IN ACT OF RISING 



dignified by the name of " cook " in most South African 

 hunting parties. Waterbuck meat being coarser grained 

 than usual, suffers from this treatment in an extra 

 degree ; but if it is hung for the correct period, and 

 cooked with some small amount of scientific attention, 

 there is not much difference apparent between it and that 

 of most other species. Quite a number of people, who 

 might easily escape being mistaken for experienced 

 epicures, think it the correct thing to express the utmost 



