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Vryburg, and near to the farms in Bechuanaland, it has become so 
used to the sight of man who protects it, that it no longer regards him 
as an enemy. Sir C. Harris, however, saw him in a more unsophisti- 
cated state, for, he says that, when followed, the caama frequently 
stops, and turning proudly towards the foe with a most sapient look, 
sneezes with great violence, an act of overt folly, so much so, indeed, 
that it would appear to be playing a game of hide-and-seek with the 
hunter, ever peeping at him from behind the trees. 
The flesh is dark and venison-like in appearance, but somewhat taste- 
less. The skin is in much request among the Bechuanas for karosses. 
The caama is very liable to a terrible scourge that affects most of the 
big game of South Africa. It originates in a kind of bots, probably the 
larvæ of an Oestrus, which force their way into the nostrils, and the 
head becomes literally crammed with maggots, numbers of which are 
expelled in the process of sneezing. 
The bontebok and blesbok bear to each other the closest resemblance, 
being equally robust, with the same hump on the back just behind the 
neck, the same broad nose, characteristic indeed of the whole Alcela- 
phine division, and finding its greatest expression in the wildebeests; and, 
as Harris says, both have the same fine, venerable, old-goatish cast of 
countenance. The lyrated horns are placed vertically on the summit 
of the cranium, those of the bontebok being jet black, whereas they 
are light brown in the blesbok. They have in common the snowy white 
blase on the nose; the belly is white; and the back hoary and glazed, 
as though they wore saddles. They are equally addicted to the use of 
salt, which occurs abundantly in the form of an efflorescence in the 
Kalahari, and both scour against the wind with their square noses close 
to the ground, as though they were running scent. The bontebok now 
survives only on certain farms near Cape Agulhas, but the blesbok has 
a more northerly range, and formerly existed in great numbers in the 
Free State and Transvaal. 
In the country of the Tamboukies, immediately beyond the eastern 
` frontier of Albany, there exist boundless billowy successions of surge- 
like undulations, known appropriately as the Bontebok flats; whether 
the “ painted-goat ” ever existed there is problematical, but the blesbok 
used to be shot there in considerable numbers. These two bucks stand 
out from the rest of the hartebeests by their violet and chocolate color- 
ing ; their height is about 3 feet 8 inches, and length 6 feet 4 inches, 
but animals of this stature are seldom found now. 
The sassayby, or, as Livingstone called it, the tsessebe, is found north 
of Lake Ngami. It stands 4 feet 6 inches at the withers, and some 8 
