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exterminated in the Orange Free State and the adjacent districts south 

 of the Limpopo. It is, however, still to be met with in parts of 

 Griqualand West and of the Kalahari, as well as in British Bechuana- 

 land ; while in Khama's country and Rhodesia, and thence north- 



Head of Bull Nyasalanil Gnii. 

 I'Vom Sir H. M. Johiisloii's liiitish Cent ral Africa, published l.iy Messrs. Jlelhuen. 



wards through Central and East Africa, it is comparatively abundant, 

 or, at all events, was so before the ravages of the rinderpest, and it 

 also occurs in Mozambique. In spite of its clumsy and ungainly 

 appearance, the brindled gnu is a rapid mover ; and even when severely 

 woundeci will not unfrequcntly succeed in making good its escape 

 from the mounted hunter. 



