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sackcloth; and a pair of tanned sheepskin trousers, commonly called crackers, envelop his nether man. His lower extremities are 
thrust into pieces of fresh hide, which have accommodated themselves to the shape of his huge feet ; and a white felt hat with an ample 
quaker brim, shades his uncombed head. By his side dangles a magazine of powder, constructed of an entire ox horn of those Brobdig- 
nagian dimensions which only Africa can produce ; and his loins are girt about with a pouch containing a corresponding supply of two 
ounce balls. Similar in size and shape of person, similarly arrayed, and similarly equipped, forth ride the dooren to the hunting ground, 
distributing themselves over the plain, and approaching at a slow pace as near as the game will permit. Like most other antelopes the 
Springbok almost invariably runs against the wind when alarmed. By preserving the windward guage therefore, to use a nautical ex- 
pression, and gallopping on a diagonal course, nothing is easier, upon a tolerable horse, than to intersect their path, and thus compel the 
whole herd to cross within a few yards of the gun: mie: 
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They sprightly put their faith, and roused by fear 
Give all their swift aérial forms to flight; 
Against the breeze they dart that way the more, 
To leave the murderer’s lessening cry behind. 
As the white ramped bucks sweep past, Harlequin-like, by a succession of magic bounds, ricochetting over each other's heads as if struck 
with a cricket bat, and invariably following every four or five sprigs by as many strokes of a gallop,—the Dutchman, vaulting heavily 
from the well-padded saddle, delivers his shot, first casting the bridle over the head of the perfectly trained horse, which will stand if 
necessary for hours together without attempting to stir from the spot. Delicate and fragile as the Springbok appears, many a choice 
morsel of its venison nevertheless escapes the spit or the cabob-stick, after the successful marksman has counted it his own. What boots 
the loss of a limb? Every antelope can run better upon three legs than upon four, and a heavy bullet may pass through and through the 
tender form of one of these tough lived little animals without so much as causing its pace to slacken ; although, after keeping up the 
race for some distance with its more fortunate con/réres, it is destined to sink upon the wide plain and close its ‘bright eye for ever. 
The mystic operation of breaking, or in vulgar phraseology, of cutting up the quarry, preparatory to packing it away behind the 
saddle, immediately follows. ‘The head and offal having first been removed, and either thrown to the vultures, or quarrelled for by the 
Hottentot attendants, whose perquisite they are acknowledged to be, the cavity is stuffed with whatever grass or herbs may be obtainable. 
A portion of the front skin being left entire, the knee joints are then divided, and the tarsal bones stripped to the fetlock ; the bones of 
the pelvis are also cut through, and the cowteaw de chasse introduced between the two middle vertebra of the spine to make it ride steady. 
The carease, which in an adult buck is fully as heavy as that of the largest sheep, having then with some difficulty been thrown across 
the horse’s crupper, the dangling tarsal bones are twisted under the girths on either side in order to secure it in that position, and 
Mynheer resumes his saddle and his sport. Of a truth, a field of portly boors fully harnessed, pricking their wretched garrons over the 
plain, and having each a cumbrous carcase bumping at his breech, is a sight passing goodly to behold. Two Springboks may even thus 
be carried without alarming inconvenience to the equestrian; but as the steed cannot of course under such circumstances move beyond . 
a foot’s pace, it is usual to bring pack horses into the field—although in default thereof, and as a dernier ressort, a third carease may still 
be thrown across the saddle. This arrangement is little patronized by the boors, who at best are sorry pedestrians, but it was one to 
which, in the absence of assistance, I was frequently compelled to have recourse. Having no feat tt the sambok before their sullen 
sunken eyes, the Hottentots of our party greatly preferred shooting on their own account, to assisting me in the toils of the chase, 
which indeed they rarely condescended to do. The most brilliant exploit of venerie claimed by these lazy gentlemen during the whole 
expedition, was achieved before crossing the Colonial boundary, when three of the best shots having wheedled us out of a supply of 
ammunition to admit of their proving their new roers—expended no less than six rounds of it upon a feeble fawn which had recently 
been dropped under a thorn bush, Failing altogether in their murderous designs, the little wretch was ultimately taken prisoner, only 
alas! to become food for our famished Zoroastian domestic, whose religious antipathies prevented his even tasting the flesh of any 
animal that wore a bovine expression of face, and who, but for this timely windfall, might peradventure have been starved. 
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