AN ELAND SHOT. 115 



Great numbers of buffaloes, zebras, tsessebes, tahaetsi, 

 and eland, or pohu, grazed undisturbed on these plains, so 

 that very little exertion was required to secure a fair sup- 

 ply of meat for the party during the necessary delay. 

 Hunting on foot, as all those who have engaged in it in 

 this country will at once admit, is very hard work indeed. 

 The heat of the sun by day is so great, even in winter, aa 

 it now was, that, had there been any one on whom I could 

 have thrown the task, he would have been most welcome 

 to all the sport the toil is supposed to inrpart. But the 

 Makololo shot so badly, that, in order to save my powder, 

 I was obliged to go myself. 



We shot a beautiful cow-eland, standing in the shade of 

 a fine tree. It was evident that she had lately had hei 

 calf killed by a lion, for there were five long deep scratches 

 on both sides of her hind-quarters, as if she had run to the 

 rescue of her calf, and the lion, leaving it, had attacked 

 herself, but was unable to pull her down. When lying on 

 the ground, the milk flowing from the large udder showed 

 that she must have been seeking the shade, from the dis- 

 tress its nou-removal in the natural manner caused. She 

 was a beautiful creature, and Lebeole, a Makololo gentle- 

 man who accompanied me, speaking in reference to its size 

 and beauty, said, "Jesus ought to have given us these in- 

 stead of cattle." It was a new, undescribed variety of this 

 splendid antelope. It was marked with narrow white 

 bands across the body, exactly like those of the koodoo, 

 and had a black patch of more than a hand-breadth on the 

 out ;r side of the forearm. 



