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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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th of November, thoughI was hunting continually the entire time, andtramped over an enormous extent of wild and utterlyuninhabited country, I only saw one more of theseanimals (a young bull) in all that time. I mentionthese facts to show how much work an elephant-hunter has often to go through, taking it all in all,for each animal killed. Whilst following on the spoor of the elephants, Iwas surprised, upon issuing from a thick goussyforest, to find myself suddenly in face of a hill ofconsiderable height. As this was the first hill of anysort or kind I had seen since leaving the VictoriaFalls, and as it is certainly the only eminence withina radius of very many miles, I viewed it with greatcuriosity, and could I have afforded the time wouldcertainly have ascended it. As it was, however, thespoor, after approaching pretty close to its foot,again led us away in a contrary direction. I after-wards heard from the marsh natives that their namefor this hill is Umgooloo. This is the same hill
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XI OSTRICHES, ZEBRAS, ANTELOPES 223 which Livingstone mentions by the name Ngwa,and which is known to Khamas people at the presentday as Goh-ha. By the time that the last elephant was disposed of,and mv scattered followers had reassembled, it waslate in the afternoon, and we were all of us terriblydistressed for want of water ; so, as there was amoon, I resolved to wait for the cool of night to getback to the river. Although we had followed upon the spoor of ourvictims for a great distance, they had pursued a zig-zag course, so that we were not so far away from themarsh as I had imagined. Still, it was not much beforemidnight that our ears were at length greeted by thedistant croaking of many thousands of frogs, and a^QyN minutes later I was having calabashes of waterpoured over my head, and washing some of the dirtfrom my grimy person. By good luck we had hit offthe marsh pretty close to our encampment, which weat length reached about half an hour afterwards. During the next two days

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