Five years' hunting adventures in South Africa: being an account of sport with the lion, elephant ...

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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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and kill a Koodoo—The coming of Summer—Vast numbers of Birds visit-ing the Fountains—My trusty two-grooved Rifle bursts—My Snuffers, Spoons,and Candlesticks melted for Bullets—Elephants taking a Douche Bath—Twoof them slain—Yet more Elephants—My Horse Colesberg dies of the AfricanDistemper—Virulence of the Scourge. I remained at Sabi6, hunting elephant and rhinoceros with varioussuccess, till the morning of the 22nd of August, when I inspanned, andmarched for Mangmaluky, which we reached at sundown, when I drewup my waggons in an open grassy glade on a rather elevated position,commanding a fine view of the bold outline of the surrounding moun-tains. On the march I shot a white rhinoceros in the act of chargingdown a rocky face, with all the dogs in full pursuit of him. The balldisabled him in the shoulder, when, pitching upon his head, he de-scribed the most tremendous somersault, coming down among the stonesand bushes with the overwhelming violence of an avalanche.
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