A Breath from the Veldt 



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range of the Nieuveldt Mountains. The whole expanse presented to the 

 eye shows only a great plain of cracked mud and stunted bushes about a foot 

 high, where not even " weeds and flowers can promiscuous shoot." But 

 presently one discovers that these stunted bushes are, in fact, the favourite 



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SPRINGBUCK COURSING 



Showing the Horse, Cart, and Dog used for this sport. 



sustenance of the springbuck that to-day roam over the face of the country, 

 and that in former times they supported vast herds of blessbuck, bontebuck, 

 springbuck, and black wildebeests. In the scattered bushlands, too, on the 

 verge of this district, lived the graceful koodoos along with their enemies the 

 lion and the leopard, and though to-day but a remnant remains of all these 

 countless herds, there is still plenty of attraction here for the naturalist and 



