On safari : big game hunting in British East Africa with studies in bird-life (1908)
Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929, Gough, George P., former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : Edward Arnold · leaf 66
ON SAFARI 36 This little wood, unknown to me, bordered a creek of Lake Nakuru, and a score of these pachyderms had been lying asleep within a few yards of where I had fired that final shot. Thus the bull of Neumann’s hartebeest, for the present, remained wanting. I had, however, secured an immature… … HEADS OF NEUMANN’S HARTEBEEST. Bull, 18| ins. (shot later) ; cow, 15§ ins. ; immature, 10f ins. measured 10f ins. in length along the front curve. How I came to kill this small beast I never quite knew. Possibly the bullet, missing its mark, had struck another ; more probably (the distance being…
Big game hunting · Bird watching
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