. A hunter's wanderings in Africa, being a narrative of nine years spent amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa, containing accounts of explorations beyond the Zambesi, on the river Chobe, and in the Matabele and Mashuna countries, with full notes upon the natural history and present distribution of all the large M__a_m_m_a_i_a . In the middle of the night, when the fires wereburning low, old Lo Magondi, who always slept at ourskerm amongst our Kafirs, suddenly jumped up andcalled to our boys to make up the fires, as there wasa lion close to us. Though I was awake I had heardnoth
. A hunter's wanderings in Africa, being a narrative of nine years spent amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa, containing accounts of explorations beyond the Zambesi, on the river Chobe, and in the Matabele and Mashuna countries, with full notes upon the natural history and present distribution of all the large M__a_m_m_a_i_a . In the middle of the night, when the fires wereburning low, old Lo Magondi, who always slept at ourskerm amongst our Kafirs, suddenly jumped up andcalled to our boys to make up the fires, as there wasa lion close to us. Though I was awake I had heardnothing ; but soon after the boys had rekindled thefires, a low, deep growl, of disappointment, I suppose,broke the silence of the night—such a growl as canonly issue from the throat of a lion ; the deep sullensound was twice repeated, seemingly within fiftyyards of where we lay, and then all again was still,nor were we further disturbed that niht. The O brute must have been sneaking about trying to stealsome meat, for the old man said he had heard him 468 A HUNTERS WANDERINGS ch. xxi just behind his head, walking over the dead game is very scarce about here, and that lionwas doubtless hungry ; so that the man who hadgone out into the darkness behind our skerm justbefore he growled would have had, I fancy, a badtime of Horns of White Rhinoceros [Rhinoceros simiis) £ Shot in the Mashuna Country, between the Umzweswe and LTniniati rivers,July 1880. Scale i inch to the foot. CHAPTER XXII Ancient track of Hippopotami—Starving Hippos to death—Elephant-hunt—Mountainous Country—Buffaloes—Rhinoceros—Paddlinga dead Hippo—Nasty Accident—Lionesses. Early the next morning we packed up our traps,divided the sea-cow meat, now pretty well dry,amongst our Kafirs, and bidding good-bye to LoMagondi, whom we voted to be a very decent oldfellow if it were not for his begging propensities,made a start for the Banyai village on the Umniati,where I had already been, a
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