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The coaft, as far as could be feen from the high hillocks of 
fand, was wild and rocky, and without bay or indent. 
The well-clothed plains of Zuure Veldt, when inhabited by 
the Dutch, abounded with a variety of game, efpecially of the 
antelope tribe ; but fmce the arrival of the Kafiers they have 
moftly been deftroyed or chaced into fome other part of the 
country. The manner in which thefe people hunt is not only 
a very deftrudtive one, but it fo much frightens thofe animals 
that may chance to efcape, that they abandon the place. A 
large party, confifting fometimes of feveral hundreds, men, wo- 
men, and children, furround a plain on which they have per- 
ceived a herd of antelopes. As foon as they have formed the 
circle each proceeds towards the centre of it, narrowing the 
diameter, and clofmg upon each other, till the animals are 
completely fenced in. Antelopes, particularly that fpecies 
called the fpringbok, like fheep, always follow where one leads. 
As foon, therefore, as the hunters have approached within a 
certain diftance, an opening is made in the circle for the neareft 
animals to pafs. All the reft follow in a line ; and while by 
rufhing together they retard each other, the men, armed with 
fpears, clofe in upon the line and make dreadful havock among 
them. Scarcely a fpringbok is now to be met with in Zuure 
Veldt. We found the fteenbok, the bofchbok, the rietbok, and 
the orabie, towards the extremity of the colony, and fhot feve- 
ral hartebeeJIs. This is one of the fineft animals of the family 
of antelopes. The male is about feven feet and a half long 
and five feet high, and the female fix and a half feet long and 
four feet high : the horns branch out of a fingle trunk that pro- 
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