. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . HUNTING THE GNOO. 195. THE HARTEBEEST. and taking with him a supply of articles of trade an { a traiitof Hottentots, Bushmen, and Dutchmen, he set off into theinterior on a trading and hunting expedition. This was repeatedfive times in five successive years, and the result was his obtain-ing about thirty tons of trophies of the chase, which he carried toliondon, where he exhibited them as proofs of the truth of hiastory. We shall copy freely from his book. The reader will observethat he uses certain peculiar terms, such as trek, to travel withwagons ; inspan
. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . HUNTING THE GNOO. 195. THE HARTEBEEST. and taking with him a supply of articles of trade an { a traiitof Hottentots, Bushmen, and Dutchmen, he set off into theinterior on a trading and hunting expedition. This was repeatedfive times in five successive years, and the result was his obtain-ing about thirty tons of trophies of the chase, which he carried toliondon, where he exhibited them as proofs of the truth of hiastory. We shall copy freely from his book. The reader will observethat he uses certain peculiar terms, such as trek, to travel withwagons ; inspan, to yoke the oxen and attach them to the wagons ;outspan, to unyoke and loose the oxen ; spoor, the track of a wildanimal; &c. The following is his account of hunting the Gnoo and theHartebeest, and of the peculiar habits of the African Wild Dogs. On the morning of the 12th I rode northeast with attendants,and after proceeding several miles through an open country weentered a beautiful forest of cameeldorn trees, and rode alongbeneath a range of ste
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