IMPALA 



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through each eye. In the days of their abundance impala were to 

 be found in big troops ; and such are still to be met with on the 

 Upper Zambesi, in East Mashonaland, and parts of British East 

 and Central Africa. Half a century ago, or even less, they were to 

 be found in similar numbers among the covert on the banks of 

 every river in the Transvaal and Bechuanaland ; but now it is not 

 till the northern borders of the former country that they are to be 

 met with, and even then only in small parties here and there. 

 Impala are some of the fleetest of all antelopes, and are also in the 

 habit of leaping high in the air ; their presence always implies the 

 neighbourhood of water. 



