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Updated: May 17, 2025
We cantered on over the plain, till the garden and the farm looked in the distance like ships at sea, and rode among the bushes that crowned a rising ground. We set up some guinea-fowl and other birds, and startled a hare, but let them go, as our aim was steenboks.
We used to ride out sometimes after steenboks, small brown creatures, that made little show when bagged, but then there were huge and horrid vultures to remind one of the sandy desert, and there were pauws gigantic birds that were splendid eating; and the very thought that I trod on land which little more than quarter of a century back had been marked by the print of the royal lion was in itself sufficient to arouse unwonted interest, which was increased by the knowledge of the fact that the kloofs or glens and gorges of the blue hills on the horizon were at that time the natural homes of leopards or "Cape-tigers" and huge baboons.
This was not much, but it was sufficient to prove his great strength, and to convince me that a large tortoise could easily have walked off with a little boy. I found Bonny dismounted and waiting. "No steenboks to-day, I fear," he said. "We must have a shot at something, Bonny," said I, dismounting, and sitting down on an anthill.
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