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Kalahari of South Africa occurs the 
biggest of all oryx, the jemsbok. 
The Bush. 
F OR the purposes of this article one 
can consider as bush any sort of 
country — whether typical bush, 
clothed with long grass, or thinly-wood- 
ed — sufficiently thick to afford to game 
complete cover from view. Such coun- 
try generally holds less game than a 
similar area of prairie and calls forth 
all the hunter’s skill in bushcraft to lo- 
cate his quarry. He must follow by 
tracking, walk soundlessly, keep the 
wind right and be ever ready to dis- 
cover the presence of his game, through 
the thick vegetation, by the twitching of 
an ear, whisking of a tail, or other sign, 
before he is himself seen, heard, or 
scented. He must also be quick with his 
rifle as often the only chance he gets 
is a momentary one as an animal dashes 
off out of sight. 
The denizens of the bush are much 
more wary than those of the plain. 
They are sharper of hearing — indeed 
most of them are provided with very big 
ears for this very purpose — and more 
observant of scent than the latter. They 
are also quick at seeing through the 
interstices of the thick cover they in- 
habit. 
Typical bush-dwellers are: — the ele- 
phant, which loves bush interspersed 
with trees; rhino, which prefers dense 
thorn; buffalo, which like bush with 
open glades, cane brakes and a plentiful 
water supply; sable and kudu, which 
like wooded hills; eland; lion; leopard; 
impala; bushbuck; waterbuck; duiker; 
dik dik and bushpig. 
The lion of the bush is a more wary 
customer than that of the plains, or 
desert, and is exceedingly hard to cir- 
cumvent. It feeds on buffalo and eland, 
which it prefers when it can catch them, 
but its staple food is the bushpig — a 
fact which is not well known. 
The greater part of Central Africa 
consists of such bush country. Nyasa- 
land, reached via Chinde, Northern 
Rhodesia, reached via the Victoria Falls, 
and Portuguese East Africa all afford 
good hunting grounds where most of the 
above game may be found. In Uganda 
elephants are plentiful, as also Jackson’s 
hartebeest, buffalo, Uganda kob and 
waterbuck. There are stretches of bush 
in East Africa where lesser kudu are 
found, and west of Lake Bangweolo and 
in Eastern Angola the finest sable are 
shot. 
In the Southern Sudan are wide tracts 
of bush country where elephant, rhinoc- 
eros, giraffe, buffalo, thiang, eland and 
other game are common. In the open 
glades of bush country reedbucks are 
met with — the common reedbuck in the 
south and the Abyssinian and bohor 
reedbuck in the north. 
The greatest difficulty in the bush is 
to keep the wind right, especially when 
following such game as elephant and 
buffalo, which twist and turn and part- 
ly retrace their tracks. Often, when one 
finds the spoor leading downward it is 
better to leave the track altogether and 
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