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Title: Five years' hunting adventures in South Africa: being an account of sport with the lion, elephant ...
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming, 1820-1866.
Subjects: Hunting -- South Africa Museum Collection South Africa -- History South Africa -- Description and travel Special Collections
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall.
Contributing Library: Broward College Archives and Special Collections
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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led—The noble Beast takes the water, followed by a Dog and aCrocodile—A bold Mountain-range—Abundance of Game—Abrilliant Lion-hunt—Two killed out of a troop of four—Rhino-ceros-hunting—Leave the Mariqua River—Sublime Scenery—Another Lion-Hunt—A Buffalo rips up my After-riders Horse—Camelopard-Chase—Sudden encounter with two huge Lions—Arrival at Sichelys Kraal. CHAPTER XXXIII, 340 The Pass of God—Hunt Sable and Roan Antelope—Sesetabie—MyCattle-losses in five Expeditions—My Cattle desperate for wantof Water—Trading with Mahura—Inspanning young Oxen—We cross the Vaal River—The Country densely covered withGame — An Ostrichs Nest — Bloem Vonteyn — Multitudes ofAntelope Skeletons cover the Plains—The Great Orange River—We are detained by the Flood—Twenty-three Men drownedin attempting to cross—We have to take the Waggons to pieces—Arrival at Colesberg—Determine to revisit Old England andtransport my collection of Trophies thither.
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CHAP I FIVE YEARS HUNTING AND SPORTINGADVENTURES IE SOUTH AFRICA. CHAPTER I. Preparations for a Hunting Expedition—Cape Traders—Travelling—Trader at aFarm—Dangers of a Traders Life—Articles for Barter—Dissuasions from theEnterprise—My Outfit—Hunting Rheebok—Wild Flowers. Having resolved to make a hunting expedition into the interior ofSouthern Africa, my first object was to seek out some experienced per-son, able to give me the necessary information as to what purchases Ishould require to make in the way of waggons and oxen, and as to myoutfit in general, and I accordingly pitched upon an individual of thename of Murphy, a trader in the interior, who, I had reason to believe,was better acquainted than any other person in Grahamstown with thefrontiers of the colony, and the adjoining territories of the Griqua andBechuana tribes, situated beyond the Great Orange River. With thisperson I had already had the pleasure of becoming acquainted duringthe short time I was quar

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