Murraysburg meander
To the pioneers, it seemed inconceivable that the herds of Karoo plains game could ever be destroyed. They streched for kilometer after endless kilometer across the Karoo, outnumbering it seemed the stars of the Milky Way, but where something can be had for nothing, man can lose control of his own reason. He can become the most destructive of all animals, justifying what he does by the reasoning that somebody else will do it if he does not.
The slaughter of the great antelope heards of the central plateau was unparalleled, even in the plains of America where the buffalo was practically wiped out. A classic example was a vast hunt organised in 1860 as an entertainment for the visiting Prince Alfred, second son of Queen Victoria, where an estimated twenty to thirty thousand game was hunted in a single day!