SPAN (d), a team.
SPOOR (d), footprints; also a trail of man, animal, or vehicle.
SPRINGBUCK, properly SPRINGBOK (d), a small antelope (Antidorcas (Gazella) euchore). Habitat, high veld and other open grass country. Height, 30 inches; weight, up to 90 pounds; horns, 19 inches (literally. jumping buck).
SPRUIT (pronounced sprait; also commonly, but incorrectly, sproot) (d), a stream.
SQUIRREL, or TREE Rat, native name ’MCHINAAND (Funisciurus palliatus).
STEMBUCK (Cape Dutch, stembok or steinbok, from the pure Dutch steenbok, the Alpine ibex), a small antelope (Raphicerus campestais). Height, 22 inches; weight, 25 pounds; horns, 5 inches.
STOEP (pronounced stoop) (d), a raised promenade or paved verandah in front or at sides of a house.
TAMBUKI GRASS, also TAMBOOKIE, and sometimes TAMBUTI (n), a very rank grass; in places reaches 15 feet high and stem diameter half inch.
TICK, or RHINOCEROS, BIRD, the ‘ox-pecker’ (Buphaga Africana).
TIGER. In South Africa the leopard is generally called a tiger; first so described by the Dutch—tijger.