CAPE HUNTING DOG OR WILDE HONDE 
early days in Umvoti County he was sitting on his 
stoep conversing with his son when he observed 
some swiftly-moving objects appear over the brow 
of a low hill about a mile distant. He seized his 
telescope, and sure enough they were a pack of wild 
dogs making straight for his sheep grazing peacefully 
out upon the grass veld. He and his son, hastily 
arming themselves with a gun each, dashed for the 
stable, and saddling the horses rode off at a full 
gallop, discharging their guns as they rode. When 
within a couple of hundred yards the hounds fled 
and disappeared with a swift, swinging gallop. The 
sheep were rushing about in a state of the wildest 
terror. The veld was strewn with dead and dying 
animals, and others running about with large pieces 
of flesh either torn out of their bodies or hanging 
in ribbons. Sixty-nine sheep was the total number 
done to death by this pack of hounds, which num- 
bered about fifteen. 
The hunting habits of these wolf-like dogs can- 
not be better described than in the words of 
Mr, Drummond : 
“Tt is a marvellous sight to see a pack of them 
hunting, drawing cover after cover, their sharp, 
bell-like note ringing through the air, while a few 
of the fastest of their number take up their stations 
along the expected line of the ruan—the wind, the 
nature of the ground, and the habits of the game 
all taken into consideration with the most won- 
derful skill. Then to see them after they have 
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