SPORT IN WAR 

 afforded us plenty of excitement and 

 novel experience. 



In addition to military operations 

 such as these, we saw something of 

 the actual sport proper of the country, 

 since supplies, especially of meat, 

 were very scarce with us. Therefore 

 the game-laws were by special ordin- 

 ance suspended, and we availed our- 

 selves of every opportunity to get 

 buck or other food. In many dis- 

 tricts we found it sufficiently abun- 

 dant, while in others the fatal scourge 

 of rinderpest had done its work — 

 especially among the koodoo — and 

 had decimated the former troops of 

 game. 



We got, at various times, koodoo, 

 sable, and roan antelope, wildebeeste, 

 hartebeeste, reit-buck, stein-buck, 



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