MIGRATIONS OF SPRINGBORS 
The lovely South African springbok is almost a gazelle, and 
has been the delight of every visitor to the veldt since the days 
of Captain Harris, — one of the earliest and best of 
naturalists to tramp over South Africa, and to pic- 
ture for us with both pen and brush the teeming life of its 
plains a century ago. The colored drawings in his doubly 
valuable book *° give a vivid idea of the 
throngs and the diversity of antelopes 
then to be seen, at favorable times, graz- 
ing on the pastures of the Orange River 
Valley, where now so few creatures are 
visible save branded flocks and_ herds. 
Springbok. 
LODER’S GAZELLE OF THE SAHARA DESERT, 
Nevertheless some still remain, and among them none is more 
certain than the periodical visitations of springboks. 
“Tn the old days,” Bryden ™} tells us, “trek bokken (springbok migra- 
tions) were a source of the greatest alarm and danger to the colonist, quite 
as much, in fact, as the locust flights. Countless thousands of these ante- 
lopes, impelled by drought and the loss of their more secluded pastures, 
migrated from their true nursery and headquarters, in the country formerly 
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