LARGER QUADRUPEDS. 357 
mal Kingdom, so far as it has yet been ascer- 
tained is given; for the minute and detailed 
individual accounts of which, we must refer 
the more curious reader to larger works than 
the present, an abundance of which, on every 
branch of this science, are now happily extant. 
As regards the larger quadrupeds, little can 
be added to the notices of Dr. Andrew Smith, 
and Captain Harris, although accumulated and 
various accounts all tend, of course, to develop 
the subject. 
More or less, every African traveller is, of 
necessity, a Mmrod, and, consequently, the au- 
thor must claim exemption from professional 
censure, if he here insert a few adventures 
amidst these objects of the lower kingdoms of 
creation, which, in Europe, might be considered 
by some to be rather unclerical. 
In those portions of the country personally 
visited by him, the more gigantic mammalia 
have now wholly disappeared. The lion, the 
elephant, the giraffe, and the rhinoceros, hav- 
ing fled from the haunts of man, are now sel- 
dom met with lower down in Africa, than along 
the line which stretches from the Quathlamba 
mountain range on the Eastward, to the South- 
ern border of Namaqualand on the Western 
coast. The districts lying along the banks of 
the Orange, Vaal, and Mooi rivers, in the in- 
