The koodoo is remarkably fond of the green stalks of this kind of millet.

Free feeding produced that state of fatness favorable for the development of this disease, and no fewer than twenty-five died on the hill opposite our house.

Great numbers of gnus and zebras perished from the same cause, but the mortality produced no sensible diminution in the numbers of the game, any more than the deaths of many of the Bakwains who persisted, in spite of every remonstrance, in eating the dead meat, caused any sensible decrease in the strength of the tribe.
The farms of the Boers consist generally of a small patch of cultivated land in the midst of some miles of pasturage.

They are thus less an agricultural than a pastoral people.

Each farm must have its fountain; and where no such supply of water exists, the government lands are unsalable.