228 AN ELAND SHOT. 



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 her 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 distress its non-removal in the natural manner caused. She 

 was a beautiful creature, and Lebeole, a Makololo gentleman who 

 accompanied me, speaking in reference to its size and beauty, 

 said, "Jesus ought to have given us these instead 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 outer side of the fore-arm. 



