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purpose I will take the colonial boundary as it was 

 best known — viz., having the Orange River for its 

 limit to the north, and the Kei River to the east, 

 and not including Griqualand West and Transkeian 

 KafFraria, which are now actually under Cape 

 Colonial Government. 



One hundred years ago, then, there were to be 



found within the territory I have indicated the 



elephant, black rhinoceros, hippopotamus, buffalo, 



zebra, quagga, lion, and leopard; and of the 



antelopes, the roan antelope, eland, hartebeeste, 



koodoo, gemsbok or oryx, black wildebeeste or gnu, 



bontebok, blessbok, springbok, rietbok, vaal or grey 



rhebok, rooi or red rhebok, klipspringer, duyker, 



boschbok, grysbok or grys steinbok, steinbok, oribi, 



and the blaauwbok or kleenebok. From this category 



I have omitted the white rhinoceros (rhinoceros 



simus) and the giraffe. Both these animals are 



stated to have been found in the Colony at a remote 



period ; and, indeed, Barrow, in his travels, asserts 



that the former of these animals was plentiful in 



Great Bushmanland in 1796. From the nature of 



the country, it seems not improbable that this may 



formerly have been the case, unless scarcity of water 



in that parched region interfered; but, as the point 



seems involved in doubt, I have refrained from 



including this animal. As regards the giraffe, there 



is no certain and reliable evidence as to its former 



existence within the Colony ; but it may be pointed 



out that this animal has, within the last one hundred 



years or so, been frequently shot within a day or 



two's journey north of the Orange River (see 



Paterson's, Le Vaillant's, and Campbell's travels in 



1777, 1784, and 181 3 respectively) ; and, sharply and 



