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English: African Sable Antelope

Identifier: ourholidayinafri01whee (find matches)
Title: Our holiday in Africa
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Subjects: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Publisher: (St. Joseph, MO : Press of Combe Printing)
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land after morethoroughbred cattle. Although the soil and climate seems tobe well adapted to fruit culture in all parts of the continent, butlittle progress has been made in fruit so far. Oranges aresmall, green and sour, in fact we did not find any good fruit,excepting the bananas in British East Africa, until we arrivedat Cape Town, and there they have fine fruit of all kinds inseason. The grapes in Cape Colony are extra fine, and thatsection is already a large wine producing country. Wild game of all kinds is plenty in nearly all portionsof Africa, except those places along the coast where the whitesettlers have killed or driven them away: elephants, rhinoceros,buffalo, giraffe, zebra, antelope, ostrich, monkeys, baboons,lions, leopards, hyenas, etc., and along the water hippopotamus,crocodiles and alligators. About three-fourths of all thegame is of the antelope species, such as the eland, which arethe largest and w-eigh a thousand pounds when full grown: 169 OUR HOLIDAY IX AFRICA
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