WANTED— A NEW MEAT 
167 
all. If the accounts of African hunters are reliable, 
the venison obtained from the larger kinds of antelope 
found in South and Central Africa is really excellent, 
that of th.e koodoo, the oryx, and the eland being 
the best. Perhaps the highest modern authority on 
the subject is the opinion of Lord Randolph 
Churchill. Those who read of and sympathized with 
his account of his sufferings under the cuisine of the 
Cape steamers, must have marked with a feeling of 
relief, that in his letters to the Daily Graphic he 
confessed to having made an excellent supper on 
stewed roan antelope. His verdict on the eland has 
not been given, but its flesh is said to surpass that of 
all other antelopes by as much as Welsh mutton 
surpasses Lincolnshire “ teg. 5 ’ Ten educated palates 
have pronounced it “ peculiarly excellent, having in 
addition the valuable property of being tender im- 
mediately after the animal is killed, which makes it 
much appreciated in Central Africa, where the meat is 
usually tough and dry.” 
In addition to the quality of the meat, the eland 
has the additional recommendation of large size. A 
full-grown eland is as large as a two-year-old short- 
horn, and has far more the appearance of a high-bred 
Indian bullock than of an antelope. Its horns are 
short and straight, pointing backwards, and it has a 
dewlap like an ox. It can live on the hardest fare, and 
soon grows fat on good pasture. Best of all, it 
becomes quite tame, and is easily acclimatized. 
When Lord Derby, the President of the Zoological 
