Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa: With Notices of the Native Tribes, and Anecdotes of the Chase of the Lion, Elephant, Hippopatamus, Giraffe, Rhinoceros, Etc, Band 2Harper, 1874 |
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after-riders afternoon assagais Bakalahari Bakatla ball Bamangwato Bechuanas beheld black rhinoceros blesbok blue wildebeest Boers borèlé breakfast buffalo bull elephants bullet Bushman camp Carey cattle chase Colesberg comrades course cover crossed dense dogs fell fired followed forest forward fountain fresh spoor galloped gave grass Griquas ground growling halted head heard held herd hippopotami horses hour hundred yards hunting hyænas inspanned karosses Kleinboy koodoo kraal Kuruman Limpopo lion lioness lying Mahura miles minutes morning natives night observed old buck old bull once outspanned oxen pallah phants potaquaine proceeded rain reached reeds resolved rhinoceros rifle river roan antelope rock rocky rode Ruyter sable antelope saddle sea-cows shoot shot shoulder side slowly soon spot springbok stalk steeds stood sundown took trees trekked troop tusks twenty Vaal River vley wagons walked water-buck white rhinoceros wind wounded zebras
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Seite 176 - ... a few yards of us, followed by the shrieking of the Hottentots. Again and again the murderous roar of attack was repeated. We heard John and Ruyter shriek, " The lion ! the lion ! " still, for a few moments, we thought he was but chasing one of the dogs round the kraal; but...
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Seite 100 - ... was coming slowly round the corner of the little vley to cultivate further my acquaintance ! This unfortunate coincidence put a stop at once to all further contemplation. I thought, in my haste, that it was perhaps most prudent to shoot this lioness, especially as none of the others had noticed me. I accordingly moved my arm and covered her: she saw me move and halted, exposing a full broadside. I fired; the ball entered one shoulder and passed out behind the other.