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“vanishing Eland” can be reached, and ‘“‘even in these unexplored wilds 
these rare creatures can nowadays be scarcely considered safe.” Mr. Bryden 
proceeds to describe the progress of its extermination now going on as 
follows :— 
“Directly the rain falls, hunters from among the Bakwéna, Bangwaketse, and 
Bamangwato tribes, well-mounted, and armed with breech-loading rifles, penetrate to 
the innérmost recesses of the Kalahari, and, wandering from one pool of rain-water 
to another, deal destruction among the game, and especially among the Giraffes and 
Elands. That Elands are still plentiful in these regions of the Kalahari I can personally 
testify, having found them in numbers, and procured specimens in two or three days’ 
hunting from the desert road between Khama’s and the Botletli river (between Inkonané 
and Kanné) within recent years. Coming down country, too, I saw at Sechele’s town 
—Molepolole—numbers of horns and heads of freshly slain Elands, some of them 
magnificent examples, which had been recently shot by Bakwéna hunters. But that, 
even in the North Kalahari, these and other game can long resist the incessant war of 
extermination waged against them, 1 am much more than doubtful.” 
_ Thus we see that the typical brown unstriped Eland, which formerly 
pervaded the whole of the Cape Colony and the adjacent districts, and in 
1652 (according to Van Riebeck) was found even on Table Mountain, is now, 
as nearly as possible, extinct ; although its closely-allied white-striped brother, 
called Livingstone’s Eland, after the distinguished explorer and missionary, is 
still to be met with in the countries further north. As regards the points of 
difference between Livingstone’s Eland and the typical form, which we will 
now proceed to explain, we cannot do better than quote from Mr. Selous’s 
excellent article on the subject lately published in Mr. Rowland Ward’s 
‘Great and Small Game of South Africa ’:— 
“The Eland of South-western Africa, as described by the earlier European travellers 
who visited the Cape Colony in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and more 
recently figured by Sir Cornwallis Harris from specimens obtained in 1837 in what is 
now British Bechuanaland and the Western Transvaal, was of a uniform pale fawn- 
colour from birth, though the coats of the older animals gradually became so thin that 
the dark colour of the underlying skin showed more and more through the scanty hair, 
giving them a general greyish appearance, the old bulls often looking a bluish-black in 
deep shade, and being described by the colonists as ‘ blue bulls.’ On the other hand, all 
the Elands found throughout Rhodesia and Eastern South Africa, and wherever I have 
travelled to the north of the Zambesi, are striped. The calves are a rich reddish-fawn 
in ground-colour, with a dark mark down the back, black patches on the insides of the 
fore-legs, and eight or nine conspicuous white stripes on each side.” 
