From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north (1900) (14780299472)

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Title: From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Grogan, Ewart Scott, 1874- Sharp, Arthur H. (Arthur Henry)
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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rutes, such as theelephant, rhino, or buffalo. If the first shot is misplaced, one can fire shotafter shot, even through the heart, without immediate effect. He was agood lion, in the prime of life, with mane, teeth, and claws perfect. Sharp meanwhile had been making his first acquaintance with thatingenious device of the devils, the jigger,^ which confined him to the campfor a week with a very ugly foot. Mahony and I went across the river and towards the swamps at thesouth end of the plain, where we knew there were numbers of hippo, andlarge herds of game. We saw two lionesses stalking a waterbuck, butowing to the open nature of the country, failed to get near them, and inbeating out a large patch of grass in which we imagined they had takenrefuge, we shot a brace of buffalo, with an admiring audience of hundredsof zebra and wildebeeste, who could scarcely be prevailed upon to moveout of the way. On the morrow, Mahony visited the buffalo remains, and^ Tne jigger, the pulex penetrans.
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HEAD OF LION-CUB AT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYS GARDENS.Pjinted bv Mii$ R. Hacker. To face page 25. THE PUNGWE AND GORONGOZAS PLAIN 25 saw a male lion, but failed to stop him with a long shot, but the next dayin the same place came unexpectedly on the two lionesses, both of whomhe wounded, and as they took refuge in the same grass, which was veryextensive and thick, and he saw a cub, he sent into camp for another gun.Sharp turned out in spite of his foot, and I followed immediately I returnedto camp and found the note, and after a hard spurt of six miles, met themcoming back in triumph with the pelt of one lioness and five small rolls offur and ferocity slung on poles. They had been captured with difficulty,one only succumbing after being bowled over with a sun helmet. Theywere great fun in camp, and throve amazingly on cooked liver, of whichthey devoured enormous quantities. Two of them were males, and threeof them (one male and two females) are now disporting themselves in theSocietys Garde