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, Etc, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1851 |
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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 - 1850 |
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after-rider assagais Bakalahari Bakatla ball Bamangwato bank Bechuanas beheld black rhinoceros blesbok blue wildebeest buck buffalo bull elephants bullet camp Carey cattle charged chase Colesberg comrades course cover crossed dense dogs fell fire flesh followed forest forward fountain galloped gave grass Griquas ground growl halted head heard held herd hippopotami horses Hottentots hour hundred yards hunting hyænas inspanned karosses Kleinboy koodoo kraal Kuruman Limpopo lion lioness Mahura miles minutes morning Muslin natives Ngotwani night noble old bull once outspanned oxen pallah phant proceeded rain reached reeds resolved rhinoceros riding rifle river rock rocky rode Ruyter sable antelope saddle sea-cows shoot shot shoulder Sichely Sicomy side slowly soon SOUTH AFRICA spoor steeds stood sundown thorn took trees trekked troop tusks vley wagons wait-a-bit water-buck white rhinoceros wildebeest wind wounded zebras
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Page 100 - ... was coming slowly round the corner of the little vley to cultivate further my acquaintance! This unfortunate coincidence put a stop at once to all further contemplation. I thought, in my haste, that it was perhaps most prudent to shoot this lioness, espe'cially as none of the others had noticed me. I accordingly moved my arm and covered her: she saw me move and halted, exposing a full broadside. I fired ; the ball entered one shoulder and passed out behind the other.
Page 176 - Suddenly the appalling and murderous voice of an angry, blood-thirsty lion burst upon my ear within a few yards of us, followed by the shrieking of the Hottentots. Again and again the murderous roar of attack was repeated. We heard John and Ruyter shriek,