A Breath from the Veldt 



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or buffaloes, or their pursuit, so elaborately have they been dealt with by 

 previous writers ; but as to antelopes the subject is not nearly so hackneyed ; 



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so on this trip I made them my principal study, winding up with the white- 

 tailed gnu, to which this final chapter must be mainly devoted. 



Nowadays, roughly speaking, Lower South Africa can show but three 

 animals whose habits can be watched without fear of their fleeing from the 



