610 WILD SCENES AND WILD HUNTERS. 
magnificent riches of the great valley of the J.impopo, in 
strange, grotesque and lovely forms. 
Here may be seen the graceful pallah, shy and capricious, 
with knotted and excentrically:inflected horns of extraordi- 
nary proportions; the rare and majestic water-buck, which 
is never found at a distance from rivers, in which he delights 
to plunge; the sluggish roan antelope of the elevated downs 
and ridges, charging viciously, when unable to continue its 
flight, with its heavy build and size equaling that of a large 
horse. Here too, is found the majestic koo-doo, with its 
brilliant colors of lively French gray, approaching to blue; 
with transverse white bands over the back and loins; 
The grotesque and awkward gnoo wheels and prances in 
every direction, his shaggy and bearded head arched between 
slender and muscular legs; his long, white tail streaming to 
the wind; his wild, sinister eyes flashing fire, and his frequent 
snort, like the roar of a lion. The sassayby, with his crescent 
horns, drooping hind quarters and brilliant colors, purple 
and violet, and the hartebeest of bright orange, and legs 
excentrically marked; the splendid oryx, with its sweeping 
tail, reversed mane, shaggy breast-and straight, slender 
horns; the beautiful zebra, with the more faintly banded 
quagga, and the riet-buck of the sedge-grown rivulets; the 
prodigious eland, fat always like a prize ox, and nearly as 
large; and most glorious of all, the swift and rare sable 
autelope, with its scimetar-shaped horns and snowy breast, 
flying along the mountain ridges. 
These are but a few of the twenty different varieties of the 
antelope, in which this veritable Paradise of the Ferse Naturze 
abounds, and most of those here enumerated are frequently 
in view in one landscape, which will yet be diversified by the 
presence of the larger beasts we have spoken of before. : 
Verily is the life of the Hunter-Naturalist filled with “ Wild 
Scenes!” 
