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stained the rocks, and, on, clearing the ridge over which 

 he had disappeared, I had the pleasure to find "Quala- 

 la" stretched to rise no more. This antelope carried 

 the finest head I had ever seen ; the horns were very 

 long, fair set, immensely stout, and rough. I cut off 

 the head for stuffing, and rode back to camp, where I 

 found a trader named Jolly, with his wagon, who wished 

 to travel along with me to the colony, being in fear of 

 the rebel Boers. 



Having heard from Mr. Livingstone that sable ante- 

 lopes frequented the rocky mountains about the sources 

 of the Kouloubeng, I resolved to march thither. Early 

 on the 18th we inspanned, and in about four hours en- 

 camped on the Kouloubeng, at a spot where, three years 

 before, Mr. Livingstone had made a garden to cultivate 

 wheat, which having sown, he left to the birds, having 

 oever returned to see how it had thriven. 



In the morning I rode forth with the Bushman, and, 

 holding a southwesterly course, examined the mountain 

 ranges and several fine straths in that direction. At 

 length I started a small troop of zebras, and soon after 

 I observed a fine old buck roan antelope, which got my 

 wind. Returning from following this buck, I shot a 

 steinbok ; this shot at the steinbok started a troop of 

 seven or eight old bull buffaloes, which Ruyter had 

 found, from the summit of a rocky hillock. I followed, 

 when the invariable rhinoceros birds started them, and 

 l galloped on in their*wake. 



Presently they halted to look behind them, and I at 

 the same instant sprang from my mare and lay down 

 in the grass. My mare commenced eating the grass 

 and whisking her tail, which the buffaloes observing, 

 and fancying that she was some species of game, made 

 ap their minds that it was all right, and, coming for- 



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