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Identifier: storyofafricaits03brow (find matches)
Title: The story of Africa and its explorers
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London : Cassell
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YOUNG COW BUFFALO CAUGHT IN A PYTHONS COILS. other species from destruction by means ofprotective laws, it is vain, even if it wasdesirable, ever to expect a return of the dayswhen South Africa was the hunters paradiseand the antelopes hell. No longer will the sportsman again see such * Oreas canna. 52 that day saw it, and the mangled remnant ofthe magnificent herds of animals that are allthat are left to his successors. Compare, forinstance, the casual remarks of Andrew Sparr-mann, the Swedish naturalist, Carl Thunbersf,another pupil of Linnaeus, and Fran^.ois LeVaillant, a famous French ornithologist, who 178 THE STORY OF AFRICA. visited the Cape Colony before the close of thelast century, and the jottings of the latest writerson the same country, whose works we have sofrequently quoted in these pages. When LeVaillant reached the Cape the ancien regimewas beginning to hear the strange rumbles ofthat dehdde which was not only to end it,but to bring about a change of masters forSouth

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