African Adventure: Letters from Famous Big-game HuntersDenis D. Lyell |
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Page 124
... wild and primitive . It also reminds me of the mutability of life , for now Ryan and Barns have gone , and the places and men who knew them will know them no more . Men who are fortunate enough to be able to go for trips after big game ...
... wild and primitive . It also reminds me of the mutability of life , for now Ryan and Barns have gone , and the places and men who knew them will know them no more . Men who are fortunate enough to be able to go for trips after big game ...
Page 190
... Wild Spain and Wild Norway - the former written with Mr. Buck - are most excellent reading , but now very difficult to obtain . Before I had the pleasure of meeting him we corresponded for some time , and here is one of his interesting ...
... Wild Spain and Wild Norway - the former written with Mr. Buck - are most excellent reading , but now very difficult to obtain . Before I had the pleasure of meeting him we corresponded for some time , and here is one of his interesting ...
Page 235
... wild elephant . I can imagine no more wonderful daring than to accomplish this feat , not once but continually , for twenty or thirty times in succession , among a herd of exasperatedly maddened wild elephants . About fifteen years ago ...
... wild elephant . I can imagine no more wonderful daring than to accomplish this feat , not once but continually , for twenty or thirty times in succession , among a herd of exasperatedly maddened wild elephants . About fifteen years ago ...
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Abel Chapman African elephant animals antelope Barns beast believe big game big-game blackpowder Brander-Dunbar buffalo bull bullet bush bushbuck C. H. STIGAND Capt cartridges charged cordite dangerous game East Africa Eland experience F. C. SELOUS feet fired Fort Jameson Giant Eland grass hartebeest head heard heart Heatherside herd hope horn hunter hunting inches Indian interesting letter ivory J. A. HUNTER keddah Kenya killed Koodoo leopard Loch Spynie luck magazine Mannlicher Martin Ryan mauled Mauser meat mentioned miles Millais Museum Nairobi natives natural history never Norman Smith North-Eastern Rhodesia Nyasaland photograph probably R. J. Cuninghame remarks rhino rifle round seen sent shooting shot shoulder sight Signed skin sleeping sickness small bore Somaliland species specimens spoor sport sportsmen Stigand Sudan Tarlton thick to-day trip trophies tusks weapon wild wonderful wounded writing wrote yards