Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa: With Notices of the Native Tribes, and Anecdotes of the Chase of the Lion, Elephant, Hippopotamus, Giraffe, Rhinoceros, &c, Volume 2Murray, 1850 |
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Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa ..., Volume 2 Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming Affichage du livre entier - 1874 |
Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa ..., Volume 2 Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming Affichage du livre entier - 1850 |
Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa ..., Volume 2 Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming Affichage du livre entier - 1851 |
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Page 173 - I could not guide her in the slightest, and she continued to splash, and plunge, and blow, and make her circular course, carrying me along with her as if I was a fly on her tail. Finding her tail gave me but a poor hold, as the only means of securing my prey, I took out my knife and cut two deep parallel incisions through the skin on her rump.
Page 129 - ... hot for him, relaxed his coils, and, suddenly bringing round his head to the front, he sprang out at us like an arrow, with his immense and hideous mouth opened to its largest dimensions, and before I could get out of his way he was clean out of his hole, and made a second spring, throwing himself forward about eight or ten feet, and snapping his horrid fangs within a foot of my naked legs.
Page 215 - Bushman had a narrow escape ; he was not altogether scatheless, the lion having inflicted two gashes in his seat with his claws. The next morning, just as the day began to dawn, we heard the lion dragging something up the river side under cover of the bank.
Page 115 - Two black and two white rhinoceroses had made their appearance, but, scared by the smell of the blood, they had made off. " At length the lions seemed satisfied. They all walked about with their heads up, and seemed to be thinking about the water ; and in two minutes one of them turned his face towards me, and came on ; he was immediately followed by a second lion, and in half a minute by the remaining four. It was a decided and general move, they were all coming to drink right bang in my face, within...
Page 343 - Ngotwani. After following the spoor for a couple of miles, we dropped it, as it led right away from camp. Returning from this chase, we had an adventure with another old bull buffalo, which shows the extreme danger of hunting buffaloes without dogs. We started him in a green hollow among the hills, and his course inclining for camp, I gave him chase. He crossed the level broad strath and made for the opposite densely-wooded range of mountains. Along the base of these we followed him, sometimes in...
Page 210 - Bamangwato men had left me. On the 29th we arrived at a small village of Bakalahari. These natives told me that elephants were abundant on the opposite side of the river. I accordingly resolved to halt here and hunt, and drew my wagons up on the river's bank, within thirty yards of the water, and about one hundred yards from the native village. Having outspanned, we at once set about making for the cattle a kraal of the worst description of thorntrees. Of this I had now become very particular, since...
Page 335 - I knew they would be very reluctant to do. I now sat in my saddle, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the dogs ; and whilst thus momentarily disengaged, I was much struck with the majestic and truly appalling appearance which these four noble lions exhibited. They were all full-grown immense males ; and I felt, I must confess, a little nervous, and very uncertain as to what might be the issue of the attack. When the dogs came up I rode right in towards the lions. They sprang to their feet, and trotted...
Page 236 - ... charges of powder in our weapons. On receiving the shots he dropped a volume of water from his trunk, and, tossing it aloft, uttered a loud cry and made off, steering north; but before he was out of our sight he reduced his pace to a slow walk, and I could quite plainly hear, by the loud, painful breathing through his trunk, that he was mortally wounded ; but whether the natives were too lazy to seek him, or having found him would not tell me, I know not, but I never got him. We shot another...
Page 235 - ... around us all night in every direction. We had lain but a short time when I detected a single old bull elephant approaching from the south by the same path which all the others had held. This elephant must have been very thirsty, for he came boldly on without any hesitation, and, keeping to windward, he walked past within about eight yards of us.