Excerpt from The Lion Hunter

It was in the second quarter of the nineteenth century that British sportsmen began to make those long and arduous journeys after noble game that ever since have been the aspiration of riflemen throughout the world. At that period, in both hemispheres, the herbivor? swarmed over the plains in countless thousands, and beasts of prey had not yet learned to fear the flash of firearms.

South Africa especially was a paradise for hunters. The late William Cotton Oswell has given a vivid picture of the multitudes of wild animals that enjoyed undisturbed seclusion in South Africa when he and Gordon-Cumming hunted there, some several years ago.

"On the plains between the Orange and Molopo Rivers, springbucks were met with in vast herds. For an hour's march with the wagons - say two miles and a quarter - I once saw them thicker than I ever saw sheep; they were to be counted only by tens of thousands.

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