AN ELANr SHOT. 
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Groat numbers of buffaloes, zebras, tsessobos, tahaetsi, 
and eland, or pohu, grazed undisturbed on these plains, so 
that very littlo exertion was required to sccuro a fair sup- 
ply of meat for the party during tho necessary delay 
Hunting on foot, as all those who have engaged in it in 
this country will at once admit, is very hard work Indeed 
Tho heat of tho sun by day is so great, even in winter, as 
it now was, that, had there boon any one on whom I could 
havo thrown tho task, ho would have been most wclcomo 
to all the sport tho toil is supposed to impart. Hut the 
Makololo shot so badly, that, in order to savo my powder, 
I was obliged to go myself. 
Wo shot a beautiful cow-eland, standing in tho shado of 
a fino tree. It was evident that sho had lately had hoi 
calf killed by a lion, for there wore fivo long deep scratches 
on both sides of her hind-quarters, as if sho bad run to the 
rescue of hor calf, and tho lion, leaving it, had attacked 
herself, but was unablo to pull hor down. When lying on 
the ground, tho milk flowing from tho largo udder showed 
that sho must havo been seeking tho shado, from tho dis- 
tress its non-removal in tho natural manner caused. She 
was a beautiful creature, and Lebcolo, a Makololo gcntlo- 
man who accompanied mo, speaking in reference to its size 
and beauty, said, “Jesus ought to havo given us thoso in- 
stead of cattlo.” It was a now, undcscribcd variety of this 
splendid antelope. It was markod with narrow white 
bands across tho body, exactly liko thoso of tho koodoo, 
and had a black patch of more than a hand broad th on the 
outer sido of the forearm. 
