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Five months' sport in Somali land (1894)

Wolverton, Frederick Glyn, 4th Baron, 1864-1932, Paget, Arthur Henry Fitzroy, Sir, 1851-, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 107

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Somali Land. 91 find to be open, and going about ten miles due south, we find game very plentiful, and for the first time see tracks of zebra. Early next day we start and come up, both of us in different direc- tions, with herds of zebra. We shoot seven in all, … ZEPRA. GREYTJ. though neither of us like the job, as they are too like man’s best friend. However, as this is a new kind, although we did not know it at the time, we now feel justified. It is called Grevii, and we find that ours are the first complete specimens

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