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Still, many a settler will be prone to spend a holiday 
after many of these species, some of which are capable 
of providing excellent sport, more especially elephant, 
greater kudu, bongo, and sable. 
Towards various species, therefore, the average 
settler will have mixed feelings. Thus he will have the 
utmost admiration and respect for the lion on account 
of the great amount of sport which the latter is capable 
of providing. The same beast he will detest and abhor 
when it stampedes his bullocks or decimates his sheep 
or ostriches. The buffalo, again, will give many a 
sporting moment, and, in addition, provides a hide 
which is extremely useful on the farm. The species 
labours, however, under the taint of giving encourage¬ 
ment to the tsetse-fly, and that suspicion even is not a 
desirable adjunct to a farm. Again, he will dislike 
and probably clamour for the extermination of the 
hartebeeste when he finds a broken fence or a trampled 
field of corn ; but he should bear in mind the almost 
innumerable days on which a leg or steak of “ kongoni” 
has stood between him and starvation, not to mention 
the many uses to which he has put its hide. Certain 
animals seem to stand beyond the pale and to be, 
speaking plainly, an unmitigated nuisance. Such are 
the rhinoceros and the common zebra. They provide 
no sport and they provide no food. No ordinary fenc¬ 
ing will stop a single rhino or a herd of zebra ; moreover, 
the former are apt to be troublesome if not a distinct 
danger. The only useful end I know which the living 
rhinoceros affords lies in the hair-breadth escapes with 
which he provides every touring sportsman, and even 
these thrills are treated with more scepticism than of 
yore. His carcase, however, forms the best of all lion 
baits. A herd of zebra in the sunlight form a lovely 
