The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, INIk ;ND Y EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1866.

KIN AHANTS LL IV II ISKY. —ll ÜBLIN
L'XII [BIT lON, 1865.
This celebrated. OLD IRISH• WHISKY gained the
Dublin Prize Medal.
It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole-
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by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or
wholesale at
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'Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded
Kinaban's LL Whisky."

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IL C. L. Bevan, Esq. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
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THE ELAND.

(From Wild Sports of the World)

This noble antelope, the largest of his tribe, is met with
in most parts of Africa, but more especially on the borders
of the Great Kalahari desert. The full-grown male mea-
sures six feet high at the shoulder, and is about twelve feet
in length. Its horns are about two feet long, with a ridge
ascending in a spiral direction about half-way up, the spiral
making two perfect turns when the male is full grown.
Its tail is between two and three feet long, and it has a
dewlap hanging to its knees. Its general colour is ashen-
grey, and in bulk it equals an adult Hereford ox ; indeed,
a troop of eland bulls iu full condition is likened by an ex-
perienced African hunter to "a herd of stall-fed oxen."
The eland cow has no dewlap, she is altogether more
graceful and slenderly built than her mate, and her horns
are slighter, and without ridge.
Despite the rapid strides which civilisation has made
among us, there is one of our institutions that a Bechuana,
wild from the verge of the Great Kalahari, can afford to
laugh to scorn—our roast beef. Eland flesh, so say tra-
vellersall, is more delicious than that of any other animal
running on four legs ; and no traveller, whose experience
has extended beyond the quadrupedal, ever ventured to
dispute the eland's supremacy. The animal is fit for dress-
ing the moment it is killed ; its lean is sweet-scented, ten-
der, and mellow, and its fat delicious. Moreover, in such
splendid condition is the eland generally found, that the
Bechuana could, if they pleased, hold a "cattle show,"
compared with which our Baker-street Bazaar would seem
a mere skin market. "At the end of a severe chase," writes
Mr. Gordon Cumming, "I have repeatedly seen an eland
drop down dead, owing to his plethoric habit."
It roams the desert plains in troops of from ten to a
hundred strong, and is, "like the gemsbok, independent
of water." The eland has less speed than any other va-
riety of antelope, and falls an easy prey to the stealthy
savage "stalker," with his assagai or poisoned arrows. On
account of this lack of speed the eland suffers much more
than any other antelope from the attacks of that terrible
jfellow the " wilao honden" as he is called by the Boers, in
other words, the gaunt, mangy, ever-hungering wild dog.
This animal would seem to be a connecting link between
the wolf and the hyena, combining the stealth and cun-
ning of the latter, with the blood-thirstiness, the untiring,
loug-strided and leisurely gallop, and the disposition to
act in concert evinced by the former. The females bring
forth their whelps in holes and underground burrows.
They have three different cries, each being used on spe-
cial occasions. "One of these cries is a sharp angry bark,
usually uttered when they behold an object they cannot
exactly make out ; another resembles a number of monkeys
chattering together, or men conversing, while their teeth
are clashing with cold. This cry is emitted at night when
large numbers of them are together, and they are excited
by any particular occurrence, such as hearing the voice of
the domestic dog. The third cry, and that most commonly
used among them, is a sort of rallying note to bring the
various members of the pack together." They hunt in
packs, fifty or sixty strong, the leading hounds when
fatigued falling to the rear, when others, who have been
"saving their wind," take their place, and the entire troop
inspired anew, utter their appalling yell and lengthen
their strides. Let the object of pursuit be what it may,
eland, or gnoo, or gemsbok, ho will surely succumb to the
dogged perseverance of the "wide honden," and being
once brought to bay the business is soon .settled. Now
you have the panting and bedraggled eland, helplessly
contending against the death that awaits him in each of
fifty pair of bloody jaws by which he is encircled, and
within ten minutes not a trace of eland is in sight, not a

scrap of flesh, nor a strip of skin, not a smear of blood
upon the ground even—nothing but a reclining posse of
blinking, weary, pot-bellied " wilde honden." Should the
huntsman approach a horde of wild dogs, nothing of the
fear displayed under such circumstances by other carni-
vorous animals is apparent. They will merely emerge from
their holes or rise from the ground on which they aro reclin-
ing, yawn, shake themselves, and slowly moveolf, stopping at
every few steps to look back. as though not quite sure that
the intruder is an enemy, and inclined to corns to an ex-

planation with him. But against the hunter's dogs they
bear the deadliest animosity, seeming to regard them as
renegades and voluntary slaves, deserving, the hatred of
every free cur in the country. Singly, however, the
" wilds honden" would be no match against the domestic
hound ; and with this fact the former seems well acquainted
and to specially bear in mind. Should the bunter, or the
Boer, whose defenceless sheep-flock has been ravaged by
the murderous pack, loose his watch-dogs, and urge them
to combat with the " wilds hondens," these latter will not
budge an inch, lest in the flight ono of their weak members,
falling in the rear, might be surrounded and come to grief.
Steadily they keep their ground, and when the avenging
farm dogs approach, open on either side to admit, and then
as suddenly closing up again, tear them limb front limb,
oat up every scrap of their carcases, and then trot off
triumphant.

The speed of the eland is only slow as compared with
that of antelopes generally—seventeen miles an hour can
scarcely bo called a jog-trot pace, and that is the rate, we
aao assured by Captain Drayson, at which the eland rushes
down the steepest bills pausing not should it encounter
rocks and: boulders impossible terthe erevrest steeple-
chaser, but clearing them with ease, and without in the
least diminishing its speed. "No idea can be formed,"
says Drayson, "of the activity of the eland from the ap-
pearance of the specimens exhibited in the Regent's Park
Zoological Gardens. Give them a good run, and they
would nearly leap over the palings that there surround
them."

Captain Drayson, who spent, a colic:Womble time. in
Kaffirland, hunting everything worth hunting, furnishes
the folloWing graphic instance of an eland chase. Being out
with a. jolly company of Boers, he had the misfortune to be
thrown from his horse; but with ne worse result than a
few bruises, and the breakage of the stock of his gun. This,
however, was bad enough, as it involved the necessity either
of retracing many miles back to the camp to procure
fresh piece, or of accompanying the hunting party for the
cold satisfaction of seeing them bring down the game. Of
the two evils, the former seemed the least, and so back to
camp galloped the captain. Too much ground, however,
had been lost to _admit of a chance of his overtaking his
party, so, alone in the wilderness, he resolved to essay a
little eland hunting on his own account.
" After diligent search I suddenly noticed some animals.
nearly a mile distant, that looked extremely liko elands,
therefore I turned in their direction, which was nearly op-
posite to that which I had first pursued. As I approached
them I made out a couple of bulls and four cow elands,
with five or six
.half-gro sn calves. They were away as
soon as they noticed me, and crossed a little muddy hollow
that seemed soft enough to hold them fast ; they got over,
however, but sunk to their bellies in the attempt, and came
out on the other side with black mud-stockings. 1 know
that their instinct had shown them the best place for a
crossing, and that if I tried at any other I might get pounded
completely ; I therefore went down to the spot And tried
my horse at it. lle would not stir a stop into the bog, but
smelt at it in a suspicious manner ; spurs and whip had no
effect on him, he would not face it.

"I saw that the quiet plan was no good with my nervous
brute, so turning round, I gave him a little canter and
brought him down again to the muddy crossing with a rush.
When he found what I purposed,. he tried to refuse; but
I let drop both spurs into his flank with a vigorous dig,
and at the same time applied the jambok behind with such
good effect, that ho floundered into the bog, sinking to the
girths. He struggled desperately, and could scarcely move.
There were little round hard tufts of grass in places that
afforded him a slight footing. I therefore dismounted, and
by shouting and lifting with the bridle, managed to get
him across the score of yards, the breadth of this horrid
place. This struggle took a good deal out of him, and ho
was none of the freshest when I remounted and followed
the elands, which I saw steadily trotting along a mile in
advance.

"I at length closet with them, and turned a bull from
the heard. 1 rode beniud, and obliged him to keep at a
gallop, as this pace was more distressing to him than the
trot. Seeibg another muddy place a short distance in
front I pulled up, and as the bull was floundering through
it I gave him the full contents of both barrels in the
stern. He did not fall, although I could see that he was
very badly wounded. I managed to get over this difficulty
with greater ease than the first, as the mud was not so
deep, and commenced loading as I rode. Upon taking
out my bullets I discovered that they were for my
broken-stocked gun, the bore of which was nearly two
sizes larger than the one 1 now had with me, and this
difference I had forgotten in my hurry of changing. I
put the bullet in my mouth, and kept biting it to reduce
its size, and 'at last managed just to put it into the barrel.
With the aid of a flint on the ramrod I hammered the
bullet about half-way down, but farther it seemed
determined not to go.

"The eland had trotted down to some water that flowed
from a rocky ravine near, and formed a sort of court or
semicircle, the back of which was high, and like a stone
wall. He stood in the water, and as I approached could
not retreat, as ho was in a sort of cul de sac, and did not
like coming past me. I felt inclined to go in at the bull
with my clasp-knife, but a threatening kind of pawing,
and a shake of the head when I came near, ma de me
think it more prudent to keep off.
"I now remembered a Dutchman's plan for a sticks
bullet' as they call it—viz., dropping a little water in the
barrel, I soon found the good result, for the ball began to
move, and at each blow from the ramrod went lower and
lower, until the clear ring and springing of the ramrod
showed it to be home, I then laid my impatient prisoner
low with a shot behind the shoulder. Ho was a fine
young bull, about fifteen hands in height."

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE UNION
LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA.

The annual meeting of the Union League was
held in their building on Broad-street ; a large
number of members were in attendance. The Board
of Directors presented their fourth annual report,
which, after referring to the late war and regarding
the coming history of the country as fixed for a
term of years, says :
" But in the inscrutable wisdom of God our na-
tion was doomed to suffer from another, and, if pos-
sible, more detestable treachery than that which
had inspired the recent rebellion. The man whom
our votes had elevated to the second place in the
gift of the nation, and whom the hand of the assas-
sin raised to the first, almost from the day that he
assumed supreme power, set himself about proving
that he was worthy of the manner of his succession.
Not only did he betray every trust that we had re-
posed in him, but he became false to his own re-
cord, his own pledges and protestations, and in the
very words which we had applauded in his first
message to Congress."
Referring to the recent Convention of Southern
Unionists in that city the Board say_
"We are grateful to the loyal Southern men,
whom we welcomed to their Convention, for the
wise and temperate resolutions which expressed the
sense of their meeting, and proved how little gall
was in their nature, even after they had suffered
through years of persecution, and were we_ 11
aware
that, on returning to their homes, they would be
subjected, both in their persons and their families,
to a worse renewal of their trials. The effects of
their visit to our Institution have also been produc-
tive of good to their cause in the South. Taking
copy by our association, and recognising the strength
and capabilities of organisation, since their return
they have instituted Union Leagues amongst them-
selves."

Speaking of the fire at the League• house, they
say that, notwithstanding th 3 loss and the incon-
venience occasioned by the fire, no work in which
the League was then engaged was in any way pre-
vented or even postponed for a single day.
The Board say :—" To guard against another fire
they have made the building as nearly fire-proof as
possible. The brick partition walls were run up
above the roof and formed into battlements, thus
dividing the roof into separated sections, and the
whole was covered with metal. The changes could
not be accomplished without a large outlay of
money, and the Board of Directors has therefore
increased the annual tax for the year 1867 by the
sum of ten dollars.

"At a special meeting of the League, held on.the
22d August in this year, a committee of seventy-six
members of the League was appointed for the pur-
pose of employing the energies and resources of our
Association in the approaching political campaign.