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in driving it in the direction of his camp. At one time he rode into an ant¬ 
hill and was dismounted, but speedily resumed the pursuit. Again a lion 
scared both hunter and eland, 
and gave a certain obliquity 
to their line of march. Fi¬ 
nally the wounded eland was 
driven near the camp, and as 
a reward for having served 
as a butcher’s delivery-wagon, 
was then shot. The eland is 
rapidly being exterminated, 
for zoology to African natives 
and to African hunters seems 
to mean only the procuring 
of some kind of meat to eat. 
The weight of those killed in 
Central Africa varies from 
eight hundred to fifteen hun¬ 
dred pounds. 
The Boschbok ( Tragela - 
phus sylvaticas) belongs to 
southern Africa, and though 
numerous is rarely seen and 
still more rarely captured. It 
has a white line along the back, 
succeeded by black, relieved 
irregularly by white spottings. It is the most suspicious and keen of hearing 
of all the deer. It is pronounced the finest of African antelopes, and as it 
always charges, is interesting 
to the sportsman. On one 
occasion at least it killed a 
leopard which had attacked it, 
and escaped, wearing the 
leopard’s blood upon its 
horns. 
The Harnessed Ante¬ 
lope (Tragelaphus scriptus) is 
a striped eland. It belongs 
to western and southern Af¬ 
rica. It is distinguished by 
white stripes, arranged like 
harness, is thickly spotted on 
the haunches, and has a few 
spots on the shoulder, which 
impart a curiously pleasing 
appearance, resembling breech¬ 
ing, from which the name is 
derived. The species has 
been seen by few travellers and may be 
AFRICAN EEAND. 
considered as nearly extinct. 
EEAND OF THE STEPPES. 
