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, Hippopotamus, Giraffe, Rhinoceros, Etc, Opseg 2Harper & brothers, 1851 |
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Five Years of a Hunters Life in the Far Interior of South Africa ..., Opseg 1 Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming Pregled nije dostupan - 2018 |
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after-riders assagais Bakalahari Bakatla ball Bamangwato Bechuanas beheld black rhinoceros blesbok blue wildebeest Boers breakfast buffalo bull elephants bullet camp Carey cattle chase Colesberg comrades cover crossed dense dogs elands fell fired flesh followed forest forward fountain galloped gave Griquas ground growl halted head heard held herd hippopotami horses hour hundred yards hunting hyænas inspanned karosses Kleinboy koodoo kraal Kuruman length Limpopo lion lioness lying Mahura miles minutes morning Muslin natives Ngotwani night old buck old bull once outspanned oxen pallah phants potaquaine proceeded reached reeds resolved rhinoceros rifle river rock rocky rode Ruyter sable antelope saddle sea-cows sent shoot shot shoulder Sicomy side slowly soon SOUTH AFRICA spoor spot springbok stalk steeds stood sundown thorn took trees trekked troop turned tusks twenty Vaal River vley wagons water-buck wildebeest wind wounded zebras
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