...was addressed by captam Stockenstrora, chief civil commissioner at the Cape of Good Hope. . .it| , " It is scarcely possible for a person passing over...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north, during protracted...

...Captain Stockenstrom, who has often personally witnessed the scenes he so vividly describes : — " It is scarcely possible for a person passing over...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north, during protracted...

...Captain Stpckenstrom, who has often personally witnessed the scenes he so vividly describes : — " It is scarcely possible for a person passing over...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north, during protracted...

...appended as a note to Mr. Thompson's travels. Captain Stockenstrom was a native of the country : — " It is scarcely possible for a person passing over...admiring that elegant antelope the springbok, thinly * Travels in Southern Africa, vol. ii. p. 109. t Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, by Griffiths, vol. iv. p....

...ler in South Africa, thus writes of the migrations of the Trek-boken or Migratory Springboks*:—" It is scarcely possible for a person passing over...scattered over the plains, and bounding in playful innorence, to figure to himself that these ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive...

...CERVINE ANTELOPE. [RUMINANTIA. of the extensive tracts of the interior, and admiring that elegant animal the Springbok, thinly scattered over the plains, and...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. Incredible numbers, which sometimes pour in from the north during protracted...

...and will not be stirprised to hear that it is dreaded by the farmers. Capt. Stockenstrom remarks that it is scarcely possible for a person passing over some of the extensive tracks of the interior, and admiring the elegant spring-boks thinly scattered over the plains, and...

...of North America — the locusts of Africa — are not more striking than the herds of springboks. It is scarcely possible for a person passing over...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north during protracted...

...vividly described than by Captain Stockenstrom, the chief civil commissioner at the Cape. He says, " It is scarcely possible for a person passing over...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive as the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north during protracted...

...been more vividly described than by Captain Stockenstrom, the chief civil commissioner at the Cape. " It is scarcely possible for a person passing over...ornaments of the desert can often become as destructive a« the locusts themselves. The incredible numbers which sometimes pour in from the north, during protracted...