A few blesbucks ('Antilope pygarga'), gnus, bluebucks ('A.

cerulea'), steinbucks, and the ostrich ('Struthio camelus'), continue, like the Bushmen, to maintain a precarious existence when all the rest are gone.

The elephant, the most sagacious, flees the sound of fire-arms first; the gnu and ostrich, the most wary and the most stupid, last.

The first emigrants found the Hottentots in possession of prodigious herds of fine cattle, but no horses, asses, or camels.

The original cattle, which may still be seen in some parts of the frontier, must have been brought south from the north-northeast, for from this point the natives universally ascribe their original migration.