KLIPisPRINGEKS KOODOO ^BULL L'LEPHAHT. 17 



on the sharp pinnacle of some rock or stone, with its 

 four feet drawn close up together. Its hoofs are differ- 

 ent from those of other antelopes, being suited solely 

 for rooky ground, and are so formed that the weight of 

 the animal rests upon their tips. On looking down a 

 precipice I have ofttsn seen two or three of this interest- 

 ing antelope lying together on a large flat mass of rock, 

 and sheltered from the power of the noonday sun by 

 the friendly shade of some sandal-wood or other mount- 

 ain tree. They are about half the size of the Scottish 

 roebuck, whose winter coat the texture oftheir hair very 

 much resembles, but it is stiffer, and of a yellower color. 

 On the afternoon of the 2d, as I was sitting in my 

 wagon writing up my journal, a koodoo charged past 

 me, closely followed by a pack of hungry wild dogs, 

 which maintained their position although my kennel 

 joined thern in the chase, and, holding on, the wild dogs 

 . killed the koodoo just as it reached the water where my 

 oxen drank. On the 3d I took the field with Johannus 

 and a small party of Bakalahari, and held a northerly 

 direction. After following the spoor of four bull ele- 

 phants for many miles in a semicircular course, we 

 came up with them in extremely dangerous and un- 

 favorable ground, when I was fortunate enough to se- 

 cure the finest, after a severe and dangerous conflict, 

 during which, on three separate occasions, J. narrowly 

 escaped destruction. The horse I rode was " Coles- 

 berg," which, as usual, capered and balked me when I 

 tried to fire from his back ; when I disn5ounted, he 

 seemed to take a pleasure in jerking my arm as I was 

 taking, aim : and on the elephant charging, he declined 

 permitting me to regain the saddle. This elephant was 

 a first-rate bull, with large and perfect tusks : he fell 

 within three hundred yards of the fountains, where T 



