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game, — lions and leopards, elephants and rhinoceroses, 

 wild cattle, giraffes, gnus, zebras, quaggas, and ostriches. 

 But these are dangerous regions where the sportsman 

 often cannot linger for a day. Setting aside the minor 

 considerations of miasma and malaria, — the real or 

 fancied perils of the place, and the want of food, or the 

 difficulty of procuring water, would infallibly cause the 

 porters to desert. Here are no Cape-waggons, at once 

 house, store, and transport ; no " Ships of the Desert," 

 never known to run away ; in fact there is no vehicle 

 but man, and he is so impatient and headstrong, so suspi- 

 cious and timorous, that he must be humoured in every 

 whim. As sportsmen know, it is difficult to combine sur- 

 veying operations and collection of specimens with a pur- 

 suit which requires all a man's time ; in these countries, 

 moreover, no merely hunting-expedition would pay, 

 owing to the extraordinary expense of provisions and 

 carriage. Thus Venator will be reduced to use his 

 " shooting-iron" on halting days, and at the several 

 periods of his journey, and his only consolation will be 

 the prospect of wreaking vengeance upon the hippopota- 

 mus and the crocodile of the coast, if his return there 

 be entered in the book of Time. Finally, East Africa 

 wants the vast variety of animals, especially the beauti- 

 ful antelopes, which enrich the lists of the Cape Fauna. 

 The tale of those observed in short : the horns of the 

 oryx were seen, the hartebeest and steinbok, the sal- 

 tiana and the pallah, — the latter affording excellent 

 venison, — were shot. The country generally produces 

 the " Suiya," a little antelope with reddish coat and 

 diminutive horns, about the size of an English hare, 

 the swangura, or sungula, an animal somewhat larger 

 than the saltiana, and of which, according to the peo- 

 ple, the hind only has horns ; and at K'hutu my com- 



