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... wounded Bull - The Boys " tree'd " -A pleasant Camp - Iguana - Black Rhinoceros - Martini - Henry - Wild Pig - The Boys return- " Cricket's " Death - Tsetse Fly 325 CHAPTER XXXII . Provisions run short - The last Buffalo.
... wounded Bull - The Boys " tree'd " -A pleasant Camp - Iguana - Black Rhinoceros - Martini - Henry - Wild Pig - The Boys return- " Cricket's " Death - Tsetse Fly 325 CHAPTER XXXII . Provisions run short - The last Buffalo.
Page 65
... wounded by the inferiority of his oxen thus being demonstrated , nothing has a more demoralizing effect upon the beasts themselves ; and if they once are allowed to get into the habit of being helped by a second span , they will soon ...
... wounded by the inferiority of his oxen thus being demonstrated , nothing has a more demoralizing effect upon the beasts themselves ; and if they once are allowed to get into the habit of being helped by a second span , they will soon ...
Page 97
... wounded bôk , which he had come across in an exhausted con- dition ; had ridden it down , and finally killed it with a large stone . As we wanted nothing at the store , we did not delay at all , but treked on early in the morning . Next ...
... wounded bôk , which he had come across in an exhausted con- dition ; had ridden it down , and finally killed it with a large stone . As we wanted nothing at the store , we did not delay at all , but treked on early in the morning . Next ...
Page 100
... wounded bird , which must have run like a racer directly it alighted , we went after the flock , now reduced to five . The birds had this time rested on a ridge of newly burnt grass , where there was no cover , and standing on ant ...
... wounded bird , which must have run like a racer directly it alighted , we went after the flock , now reduced to five . The birds had this time rested on a ridge of newly burnt grass , where there was no cover , and standing on ant ...
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... wounded bôk , not paying attention to the coming darkness , and when he at last gave up the chase had utterly lost all landmarks , and had not a notion in which direction to shape his way . For some time he wandered first in one ...
... wounded bôk , not paying attention to the coming darkness , and when he at last gave up the chase had utterly lost all landmarks , and had not a notion in which direction to shape his way . For some time he wandered first in one ...
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appeared arrived assegais Barbara HUTTON beast birds blue wildebeeste Boers bôk boys breakfast buffalo bullet bush camp Cape Cape Town chance cloth coffee colour cook dark Delagoa Bay dinner distance Durban farm Fcap feet fire followed forelouper French Morocco fresh gave gilt edges giraffe give grass guns hand Harrismith head herd Herr Marensky hill horse inspanned instant Jantze Kaffirs killed krall leaving Leydenburg lion looked Maritzburg Martini-Henry mealies meat Middelburg miles morning Morocco Natal never night once ourselves outspanned oxen passed present Pretoria quagga reeds riding rifle river road rock rode round Secocoeni shot side sight skin sloot snake soon South Africa spoor spring-bôk started stream supply thick took town Transvaal trees trek treked tsetse fly turned veldt waggon whole Woodward wounded yards Zulus
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