A Hunter's Life in South Africa, Volume 1Books of Zimbabwe, 1980 - Hunting |
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abundant adorned after-riders animals antelope assagais Bakatla Bamangwato Bechuanas black rhinoceros black wildebeest blesboks blue wildebeests Boers Booby breakfast buck buffalo bull elephants bullet bushes Bushman camp cattle CHAP chase Cobus Colesberg course covered dawn dense direction distance districts dogs eland encamped endeavour extremely eyes feet fire flesh following morning forest gallop gemsbok giraffe Gordon-Cumming Grahamstown grass Griquas ground halted hartebeests head hills horns horses Hottentots hour hundred yards hunting hyænas inspanned kaross Kleinboy koodoos kraal large herd length lion lioness miles mountains Mutchuisho natives night obtained old bull once Orange River oryx ostriches outspanned oxen passed plain proceeded quaggas reached returned rhinoceros riding rifle roan antelope rocky rode saddle shot shoulder Sicomy Sicomy's side skin South Africa spoor sport springboks stood Strydom Thebus thorny trees trekked tribes troop tusks Vaal River vley waggons wait-a-bit wild wounded