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Title: A hunter's wanderings in Africa, being a narrative of nine years spent amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa, containing accounts of explorations beyond the Zambesi, on the river Chobe, and in the Matabele and Mashuna countries, with full notes upon the natural history and present distribution of all the large M__a_m_m_a_i_a
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917
Subjects: Hunting Mammals
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., limited New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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chopped out all the tusks, and thenext evening reached Linquasi, where we found ourbullocks, horses, dogs, and indeed everything elseat the waggons, safe and in good order. PLATE V 1. Waterbuck S (Cobus Ellipsiprymnus). Shot in the Mashuna country, Sept. 17, 1880.Length of horns, z feet 7 inches. 2. PooKOO Antelope S (Cobus Vardoni). Shot on the Chobe river, July 7, 1874.Length of horns, i foot 4 inches. 3. PooKoo Antelope ^ (Cobus Vardoni). Shot on the Chobe river, Aug. 12, 1874.Length of horns, i foot 4 inches. 4. Reedbuck S (Cervicapra Arundinacea). Shot on the river Tati, Dec. 2, 1880.Length of horns, i foot 2 inches. 5. Reedbuck S (Cervicapra Arundinacea). Shot on the river Chobe, Nov. i, 1879.Length of horns, i foot ih inch. 6. Lechwe Antelope S (Cobus Lechc). Shot in the swamps of the Lukanga river, about 14° south latitude. Jan. 7, 1878.Length of horns, 2 feet i inch. 7. Lechwe Antelope S (Cobus Lechc). Shot on the river Chobe, July 12, 1879.Length of horns, 2 feet 3 inches.
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m r;7ni ^X^ I- T mhir ,im To face page 122. CHAPTER VII Bad Weather—Slow Travelling—Mr. and Lieut. Ganlen—Daka—Leavethe Waggons—Elephant Hunt ; first of Season—A Bath ofBlood—First Glimpse of Falls—Difficult Country—MagnificentPanorama—Grandeur of Victoria Falls of Zambesi—Herd of Buffalo—Banks of Zambesi—Double Lunar Rainbow—Pitfalls torGame. Until the latter end of November we continuedhunting with varying success, sometimes in theneighbourhood of the Gwai river, at others in thedense wait-a-bit thorn jungles to the north and westof Linquasi, and by that time the rainy season havingtairly set in, we trekked back again to Gubulawayo,carrying with us nearly 5000 lbs. weight of veryfine ivory. During the summer months we spentthe greater part of the time trekking about the countrytrading, and made an excursion across the high andopen downs lying to the south-east of the Matabelecountry, to the junction of the Ingesi and Lunti rivers,where we found some hippo

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