. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. ^^jHE clays of Nimrod, the mighty hunter, have i? Mr. Cummings, a Scotchman, went to Southern Africa, akM^/ few years since, where he spent some months in shootingelephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotami, and the like. A Frenchmanby the name of Gerard, has occupied himself in Northern Africafor even a longer period, in similar sports, though his chief amuse-ment was in hunting the lion. The pictures of animal
. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. ^^jHE clays of Nimrod, the mighty hunter, have i? Mr. Cummings, a Scotchman, went to Southern Africa, akM^/ few years since, where he spent some months in shootingelephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotami, and the like. A Frenchmanby the name of Gerard, has occupied himself in Northern Africafor even a longer period, in similar sports, though his chief amuse-ment was in hunting the lion. The pictures of animal life which these adventurers present, are [467] 468 ANIMALS OF SOUTHERN A F B I C A. indeed amazing. Droves of elephants are seen amid the trees,troops of hippopotami wallow in the lakes, giraffes are browsingin the copses, and illimitable plains are streaming with deer, ante-lopes of various kinds, quaggas, and ostriches. And amid allthese, crouching in thickets, or lurking in caves, are numerouslions, sallving forth at night to mingle their voices with the thun-der, and to feast by the flash of the lightning. And in scenes like this prowled our sportsmen, now knockingdown an elephant, now a rhinoceros, now a lion, and now aspringbok, and all in sport! Could Ximrod have had betterframe or better luck ?
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