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peculiar to the young and uninitiated hunter, is the first essential. 

 The flesh of most of the larger antelopes, especially of all the 

 varieties of water antelope, should be eaten when quite hot, other- 

 wise the fat (which, it must be confessed, is rather rare to find), 

 if allowed to cool, clogs the palate and teeth in a very disagree- 

 able manner. The Bechuana term for all four-footed game is 

 pholoholo. 



It cannot be too strongly impressed upon the sportsman how 

 absolutely necessary it is for future verification, immediately on his 

 return from camp with a specimen, whether fur or feather, to plainly 

 mark the same with the locality in which it was obtained, together 

 with its name, both Native, English, and Dutch, and the date upon 

 which it was shot. New varieties may often be determined if such 

 a plan were adopted, alike of interest to sport as it is of value to 

 science. 



