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Elephant-hunting in East Equatorial Africa : being an account of three years' ivory-hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a trip to the north of Lake Rudolph (1898)

Neumann, Arthur H, Sharpe, Emily Mary Bowdler. List of Lepidoptera collected by Mr. Arthur H. Neuman, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Rowland Ward · leaf 75

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BENI RANGE 47 II came straight out for me at a run, screaming, her trunk up. There was no time to waste ; so, as her chest was hidden by the low scrub between us, I let her have my right barrel in her head, instantly springing to one side and ducking, with the idea of dodging under the vegetation.… … Skull with brain marked black, showing its position with respect to ear, eye, etc. on the look-out this time, and as she rose (having slewed round in falling) I gave her my second barrel in the ear, before she was fairly on her feet, knocking her over plump and dead, her legs kicking up in the air…

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