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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 383

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mals toshoot. Its flesh and skin were always in highdemand ; it was everywhere eagerly pursued ;and at the present day, except in the difficultrecesses of the Kalahari Desert, the old un-striped Eland of the Cape {Orcas ca?iiia) maynow be looked upon as a vanished quadruped.In the Cape Colony,… … Bull Eland. Az. height, 72 in. Av. length of horns, 28 in.Max. iength, 34 in. plains of the interior, i.e., middle Bechuanaland,the Transvaal and Orange Free State, in vastherds. A few are still preserved by the NatalGovernment in a corner of the DrakensbergMountains between Natal and Basutoland.…

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