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oryx found still in the Cape Colony. The huge 

 hippopotamus frequents almost all the water- 

 ways — even the Zambezi itself, a little way out 

 of the path of the steamers, still contains con- 

 siderable numbers of these strange amphibians — 

 and they are a source of great damage to the 

 native gardens, as well as to sugar cane wherever 

 they find their taste for these products can be 

 indulged in safety. The rhinoceros is by no 

 means uncommon in certain parts of the country, 

 and maintains to the full the reputation for 

 uncertainty of temper which has so justly been 

 bestowed upon this formidable animal at almost 

 all other points at which it occurs. Then the 

 smaller antelopes are well represented by the 

 inyala, impala, bushbuck, reedbuck, steenbuck, 

 duiker, oribi, and klipspringer, as also by that 

 graceful little type, Livingstone's suni. Pigs 

 take the form of the unlovely warthog, and the 

 smaller, toothsome bush-pig, whilst about six 

 monkeys are headed by the yellow baboon and 

 the formidable chacma. 



We now come to the carnivora. Throughout 

 the Mozambique Province, and especially in 

 Zambezia, lions occur in considerable numbers, 

 and are a source of great terror to the natives 

 and others, and loss of life to them and to the 

 game. Leopards are almost equally numerous 

 and well distributed, especially in hilly country, 

 the animal found here being, I believe, in all 

 respects the same as that common to most other 

 parts of Africa. Servals also occur in all the 

 low-lying country, and doubtless take heavy 



