NATIVES SLAUGHTER HERD OF WILDEBEESTE
ANIMALS STAMPEDE Fror.. Komatipoort (Transvaal ( comes the story of terrible slaughter of animals on the Black Umbeluzi River in Swaziland. A band of natives, accompanied by greyhounds, rounded up a herd of some 500 wildbeeste (gnus-ox-like antelopes). which stampeded down the river. The animals thought to escape by crossing the river, but could not. and, finding they were trapped, they turned, only to find the greyhounds waiting for them (says the London “Daily Mail’*). The greyhounds attacked the tightlypacked and struggling mass at the water’s edge, and tore many of them to pieces. At the same time the natives, armed with daggers, hacked slashed a passage into their midst. Altogether 200 wildbeeste were drowned or killed. The natives made off with dozens of carcases, and celebrated the occasion with a great feast.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 244, 5 January 1928, Page 13
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