CAPE HUNTING DOG OR WILDE HONDE 



early days in Umvoti County he was sitting on his 

 stoep conversing with his son when he observed 

 some swiftly- moving objects appear over the brow 

 of a low hill about a mile distant. He seized his 

 telescope, and sure enough they were a pack of wild 

 dogs making straight for his sheep grazing peacefully 

 out upon the grass veld. He and his son, hastily 

 arming themselves with a gun each, dashed for the 

 stable, and saddling the horses rode off at a full 

 gallop, discharging their guns as they rode. When 

 within a couple of hundred yards the hounds fled 

 and disappeared with a swift, swinging gallop. The 

 sheep were rushing about in a state of the wildest 

 terror. The veld was strewn with dead and dying 

 animals, and others running about with large pieces 

 of flesh either torn out of their bodies or hanging 

 in ribbons. Sixty- nine sheep was the total number 

 done to death by this pack of hounds, which num- 

 bered about fifteen. 



The hunting habits of these wolf-like dogs can- 

 not be better described than in the words of 

 Mr. Drummond : 



" It is a marvellous sight to see a pack of them 

 hunting, drawing cover after cover, their sharp, 

 bell-like note ringing through the air, while a few 

 of the fastest of their number take up their stations 

 along the expected line of the run the wind, the 

 nature of the ground, and the habits of the game 

 all taken into consideration with the most won- 

 derful skill. Then to see them after* they have 

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