Roosevelt in Africa : graphic account of the world's most renowned hunter in the wilds of Africa, his unerring aim and wonderful ability as a hunter, encounters with lions, tigers, elephants and other wild beasts of the jungle : containing also a complete history and study of wild animals of the world, their appearance, habits, traits of character and every detail of their wild life, with thrilling and exciting experiences of hunters of big game in all parts of the globe, including mortal combats between ferocious wild animals, dangerous and daring exploits, and hair-breadth escapes (1909)
Seymour, Frederick H. A, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · [Chicago? : D.B. McCurdy] · leaf 121
years 1898 and 1899. In regard to the ravages committed by individual man-eaters, one tiger in 1897, 1898, 1899, killed respectively twenty-seven, thirty-four and forty-seven people. I have known it to attack a party, and kill four or five at a time. Once it killed a father, mother and three… … PHOTOGRAPH OF YOUNG TIGERS SHOT BY MR. SEYMOUR. spring-gun when returning to feed on the body of one of its victims. The account of the depredations of another man-eater, which infested the neigh¬ borhood of a station in the Eastern Himalaya, states that the animal '‘prowled about within a circle,…
