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Title: The panorama of nations : comprising the characteristics of courage, perseverance, enterprise, cunning, shrewdness, vivacity, ingenuity, contempt of danger and of death exhibited by people of the principal nations of the world, as illustrated in narratives of peril and adventure
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Beardsley
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eavily; but, alas! the sound was accom-panied by a sharp crack, which I too well knew, denoted the de-struction of one of his lovely tusks; and on running forward, Ifound him l3ing dead, with the tusk, vihich lay under, snappedthrough the middle. I did not tarry long for an inspection of the elephant, but,mounting my horse, I at once set off to follow on the spoor ofthe two old fellows which the ostrich had alarmed. FortunatelyI fell in with a party of natives, who were on their way to thewaggons with the impedimenta, and assisted by these, I had san-guine hopes of shortly overtaking the noble quarr3\ We hadnot gone far when two wild boars, with enormous tusks, stoodwithin thirty yards of me, but this was no time to fire, and a lit-tle after a pair of white rhinoceroses stood directly in our path.Casting my eyes to the right, I beheld within a quarter of a mileof me a herd of eight or ten cow elephants, with calves, peaceful-ly browsing on a sparely wooded knoll. The spoor we followed
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g^fri/i.-p -v\^ HUNTERS IX SOUTH AFRICA. 109 led due south, and the wind was as fair as it could blow. Wepassed between two twin-looking abrupt pyramidal hills, com-posed of huge disjointed blocks of granite, which lay piled aboveeach other in grand confusion. To the summit of one of these Iascended with a native, but the forest in advance was so impene-trable that we could see nothing of the game we sought. De-scending from the hillock we resumed the spoor, and were enabledto follow at a rapid pace; the native who led the spooring partybeing the best tracker in Eamaugwato. I had presently verygreat satisfaction to perceive that the elephants had not beenalarmed, their course being strewed with branches which theyhad chewed as they slowly fed along. The trackers now becameextremely excited, and strained their eyes on every side in themomentary expectation of beholding the elephants. At lengthwe emerged into an open glade, and- clearing a grove of thornymimosas, we came full in sight o

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