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head here being quite flat on its aspect to the cheek. The 

 female has no horns, like all those of that sex of the ante- 

 lope kind inhabiting the Fish "River Bush, and she is seldom 

 seen. The rump and mammary region are white. The 

 male and female of all the smaller bucks are distinguished in 

 the country as ram and ewe, while in the koodoo and other 

 larger ones, they are called bull and cow. Inguinal sacs 

 are also possessed by the male bushbuck. It frequents the 

 deepest and thickest kloofs and bush, and is very shy, 

 though extremely ferocious when wounded, and can inflict 

 serious wounds with its sharp-pointed horns. The Hotten- 

 tot or boer, knowing the habitat of any animal, as they are 

 generally solitary, stations himself by dawn in some little 

 krantze or rock under cover of a bush overlooking a kloof, 

 and silently awaits the buck coming out to feed at sunrise 

 at the edge of the bush, in the open space or glade, and per- 

 chance may obtain a view within gunshot. In very dry wea- 

 ther they come down from the higher kloofs and live in the 

 thick lofty bush on the banks of the river, so that the water 

 is nearer ; and here the spot they frequent on the banks may 

 become known to the hunter by the frequent spoor, which is 

 lancet-shaped and marked with the cleft in its axis, which 

 he takes advantage of by stationing himself within proper 

 range on the opposite bank, and awaiting the buck's time of 

 repairing to drink in the evenings. They may also be started 

 by following a morning's fresh spoorto their cover in the bush, 

 either with or without dogs ; and an opportunity for a shot 

 may be obtained as the buck rises and bounds off, which he 

 does with remarkable power and speed, clearing much over 

 his own height. A favourite plan of hunting bucks in Lower 

 Albany adopted by the English farmers, where a kloof can 

 be found separate and surrounded by open country, is in sta- 

 tioning the party with their guns around it at various dis- 

 tances, and sending in beaters up from the bottom of the 

 kloof to scare the game, which rush out according to their 

 number from the edge of the bush, and afford fine practice. 

 A common plan adopted by the Hottentot in the shooting of 

 smaller bucks of all kinds, is in discovering an open spot of 

 ground which, from the spoor and quantity of fresk dung, he 



