CHAPTER XII. 
NOTES OP THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATURAL HISTORY. ' — THE 
ZOOLOGY. THE LARGER QUADRUPEDS. A DAY AMONG THE 
BUFFALOS. THE WILD DOGS AND HX33NA. THE WILD 
BOAR. A NEW YIYERRA. THE ORNITHOLOGY. THE RAP- 
TORES. ENCOUNTER WITH A JACKALL-YOGEL. THE GAME 
TRIBES. THE PAAW, THE LESSER KINDS. NOTES OF THE 
REPTILES AND INSECTS. ANECDOTES OF SNAKES. A SCOR- 
PION AND A TARANTULA ; ALSO A LIZARD AND A SCORPION, 
AND A SCORPION AND HORNET. THE FROGS. STORY OF A 
DONDERPAD. 
Haying thus travelled from Cape-point to the 
Trans-Vaal territory, giving, as we progressed, 
an outline sketch of the country, its tribes and 
products, we now turn to notice cursorily, the 
natural history of the lower animals, which are 
found scattered over this portion of the African 
continent. 
A voluminous catalogue of so extensive and 
varied a subject as this, does not, of course, 
come within the compass of the present volume. 
It will therefore suffice merely to insert here 
a few of the more striking notes, taken on the 
spot, on the various heads of this branch of its 
natural history. Jn the appendix annexed, a 
classified catalogue of the South African Ani- 
