Identifier: fiveyearshunting1892roua (find matches)
Title: Five years' hunting adventures in South Africa: being an account of sport with the lion, elephant ...
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming, 1820-1866.
Subjects: Hunting -- South Africa Museum Collection South Africa -- History South Africa -- Description and travel Special Collections
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall.
Contributing Library: Broward College Archives and Special Collections
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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the horses were gone theycame in and surrounded me, the same as the day before. It was a fineshow of game : there were about two hundred pallahs, about fifty bluewildebeests, thirty zebras, and thirty sassaybys—all at once drinkingand standing within easy shot of me. After watching them for a shorttime I selected a fine old cow blue wildebeest, and fired, when this vastbody of game thundered, panic-stricken, away on every side. As thedust cleared away the gnoo was to be seen standing alone, and in aboutten minutes she staggered, fell, and died. Fifteen minutes afterwardstwo herds of pallahs approached from different directions. I was overhauling them, when up came two tearing wild boars and stood broadside before me, with their long tails stuck right up. I took the best behind the shoulder; he ran off with his comrade up a very rocky ■ hill above the fountain, leaving the stones red in his wake, and, feeling himself unable to proceed farther, he charged and staggered violently \ \
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U MY FIFTIETH ELEPHANT. 237 about the stones, and, at last, gave in, having broken both his under-teeth; like any other pig, he also squealed violently when the strugglesof death came over him. A similar circumstance occurred as I watched the waters on the 20th.Having shot a sassayby, he immediately commenced choking from theblood, and his body began to swell in a most extraordinary manner; itcontinued swelling, with the animal still alive, until it literally resembleda fishermans float, when the sassayby died of suffocation. It was notonly his body that swelled in this extraordinary manner, but even hishead and legs, down to his knees. The 21st was a bitter cold morning, with a strong wind from thesouth-west. I rode to my hole at the fountain before the morning starappeared. Shortly, becoming impatient of lying still, I rose from myhole to examine what game had drunk during the night, and, to myastonishment, I at once discovered the spoor of a mighty bull elephant,which must have dru

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