Baldwin's "African Hunting": native chased by buffalo cow and calf, 1862. 'Among the most interesting and exciting books recently published is Mr. Baldwin's journal of his hunting in South Africa in various by Boers and Kaffirs [offensive term for Africans]. The interest of the narrative is rather increased than diminished from the circumstance that part of the ground had been traversed by Dr. Livingstone. Mr. Baldwin penetrated twelve degrees north of Port Natal, and as far as the Falls of the Zambesi, being the second European who has reached that marvellous sce
Baldwin's "African Hunting": native chased by buffalo cow and calf, 1862. 'Among the most interesting and exciting books recently published is Mr. Baldwin's journal of his hunting in South Africa in various by Boers and Kaffirs [offensive term for Africans]. The interest of the narrative is rather increased than diminished from the circumstance that part of the ground had been traversed by Dr. Livingstone. Mr. Baldwin penetrated twelve degrees north of Port Natal, and as far as the Falls of the Zambesi, being the second European who has reached that marvellous scenery since its discovery in 1855, and the first from the east author speaks in the highest terms of the colony of Natal, describing it as the garden of Africa. The book number of spirited wood-engravings by Mr. [one of which] we have Kaffir servant, who had wounded a cow buffalo, is seen scrambling up into a tree, tearing his legs badly in doing so, to avoid the animal, which, with its calf or heifer, charged him. Having managed to throw up his gun before him, he reloaded and shot them both, else they might have kept him there a couple of days or very entertaining volume is published by Mr. Bentley'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.
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