CAPE HUNTING DOG OR WILDE HONDE 
but they soon learn how to cope with and overcome, 
or at least considerably minimise the effects of the 
new source of danger to their kind. For this reason 
there is much disagreement amongst naturalists 
and others as to the ways and habits of the lower 
animals, because in one part of the country they in 
many respects differ considerably in their habits, 
owing to local circumstances. Game animals, for 
instance, which in the past were invariably found 
out upon the open veld, now haunt the dense 
forests and bush-veld, owing to being hunted and 
shot. 
The powers of endurance of the Cape Hunting 
Dog are astonishing. ‘The swiftest of antelopes are 
run down by them. Keeping together in a compact 
mass, they gallop steadily along and never seem to 
tire, and although the pursued animal may be fleeter 
than they, yet possessing greater endurance they 
invariably succeed in tiring it out. 
The average man imagines that, unless he is 
fortified with nourishing food every few hours, his 
strength will wane and he will be incapable of either 
mental or physical labour. The wild dog will scour 
the country for days, doing perchance over a hun- 
dred miles a day in quest of food, on a perfectly 
empty stomach. The food of these dogs, as a 
general rule, is well earned. To procure a suffi- 
ciency, great physical exertion is put forth, combined 
with considerable exercise of mental power. This. 
strenuous life is necessary for the maintenance of 
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