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Tables of Contents for A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa
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PART I
Chapter I
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Land at Algoa Bay
Diamond Fields
Trading Trip through Griqua land
The Chief Manchuran
Batlapin Village
Griqua Town
Bushman's Lair
Klas Lucas, the Koranna Chief
Bechuanas at Lange Berg
Appearance of Country
Return to Diamond Fields
Preparations for Second Expedition
Chapter II
11
22
Kuruman
Seventy-eight Elephants shot
Bechuana Chief, Montsua
Secheli
Bamangnwato
Scenery
Hard-working Missionaries
First Giraffe-hunt
Lost in the Veldt
Great Sufferings
Cold
Hunger
Thirst
Ninety Hours' Fast
Loss of ``Salted'' Horse
Heartlessness of Natives
The Lost found
First Lion seen
Tati Gold Fields
Mashuna Diggings
Chapter III
33
15
Massacre of a Tribe
Native Dress
Remarkable Scenery
Lobengula, King of the Matabele
Umziligazi
Slaughter of the ``Headmen''
Battle of Zwang Indaba
Lions
Piet Jacobs
Terrible Adventure with a Lion
Mashunas
Elands
Start Hunting with ``Cigar,'' the Hottentot
Chapter IV
48
16
Eland shot
My First Elephant
``Cigar's'' Skill in hunting Elephants
Abundance of Game
Successful Bags
Drought
Rain
Hardship
Maiming Elephants
Stabbing from Trees
A Murder and Execution ``Bill'' and the Crocodile
Chapter V
64
23
``Inxwala'' Dance
Matabele War Dress
Black Rhinoceros
Bull Elephants
Linquasi Valley
Permanent Encampment
Hunting in the ``Fly''
Profitable Shooting
Sketch of Country
Depopulation by Zulus
Varieties of Fauna
Sable Antelope
A ``Skerm''
Extract from Journal
A Grand Elephant-hunt
Narrow Escape of a Kafir
Chapter VI
87
36
Journal continued
A Rest
Fresh Honey
Start after Elephants
Two Bulls shot
Tramp for Water
A Supperless Night
A Fort-night' Hunting
Burying the Ivory
Rejoin Wood
Black Rhinoceros
A Bees' Neat
White Rhinoceros
Six Bull Elephants shot
A Kafir killed
Disastrous Elephant-hunt
Narrow Escape
Accident
Return to Waggons
Chapter VII
123
17
Bad Weather
Slow Travelling
Mr. and Licut. Garden
Daka
Leave the Waggons
Elephant-hunt; first of Season
A Bath of Blood
First Glimpse of Falls
Difficult Country
Magnificent Panorama
Grandeur of Victoria Falls of Zambesi
Herd of Buffalo
Banks of Zambesi
Double Lunar Rainbow
Pitfalls for Game
Chapter VIII
140
25
Koodoo
Impala
Tenacity of Life
Waterbuck
A new Servant
The ``Chobe'' River
Pookoo Antelopes
Buffaloes
A wounded Cow
Elephant-shooting
Lions at Night
Abundance of Buffalo the ``Pookoo Flats''
Mosquitoes and Tsetae Flies
Chapter IX
165
14
Hippopotami
Lechwe Antelopes
Difficult Shooting
Elephants on the ``Chobe''
A Plucky little Calf
A Canoe Ride
Makubas and their Island
Return to ``Pookoo Flats''
400 lbs. of Ivory
Chapter X
179
25
Pookoo Antelope-shooting Lechwe
Up the Chobe
Strange Experience with Elephant
Canoe Trip through Marsh Lands of Chobe
Buffalo
Island Inhabitants
Palm Wine
Situtunga Antelopes
``Umbaracarungwe'' Island
Dense Thorn-bush
Chapter XI
204
31
Adventure with Elephants
Return to Mainland
Two Elephant-hunts
Ten killed
Schinderhutte; Tragic End
Two Buffalo Bulls
Encounter with a Lioness
Return to Tati, and England
PART II
Chapter XII
235
30
Land at Algoa Bay, 1876
The Giraffe and its Habits
Giraffe-hunts
Amandebele Marauders
Adventure with Lion
Narrow Escape
Westbeech the Trader
Chase after Gemsbuck
Horse killed by Lions; wound the Male; found dead by Bushmen soon after
Chapter XIII
265
23
The South African Lion
Variation of Type
Habitats
Appearance
Colour
Habits
Average Size
Unclean Feeders
Dangerous Antagonists
A and Story
Lions attacks Camp by night
Horse wounded
Ruthven shot
Lions killed
Shoot magnificent Lion and two Lionesses
Chapter XIV
288
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Start for the zambesi
Death of Lieutenant Grandy
Fever
Scarcity of Elephants
Buffaloes
Anecdotes of
Disposition, size of Horns, etc.
Spotted Bushbuck
Send Waggons to the Matabele Country
Prepare for Expedition across the Zambesi
Chapter XV
301
28
Cross the Zambesi
Great Heat
Mwemba
Lioness shot
Lorenco Monteiro
Disturbance between Batongas and Shakundas
Leave Chaiza
Batonga Musician
Crocodile shot
Villages burnt by the Shakundas
Striped Eland shot
Hippopotami
Reach Nhaucoe
Joaquim Mendonca
Canyemba
Cruel Treatment of Slaves
Smallpox
Donkeys killed by Hyaenas
Start for the Manica Country
Konze Antelope
Continuous Rains
Chapter XVI
329
18
Scarcity of Game and Provisions
Reach Sitanda's Kraal
Mosquitoes
Lukanga River
Lechwe Antelopes
Fever
Dismal Prospects
Arrival of Canyemba
Buy a Kafir
Start for the Zambesi
Reach Mendonca's Island-start for the Matabele Country
Inyoga
Reach Inyati
Chapter XVII
347
25
Hunting Trip to Mashuna Country
Camp attacked by five Lions
Shoot variety of Game
Accident to Goulden
Griqua Hunters
Many Elephants killed
Shoot Sable Antelope Bull
``Situng-weesa,'' Mashuna ``god,'' and Lobengula
Enchanted Reed
Tragic Death of Quabeet: torn in pieces by Elephant
Elephant-hunt
Charged by Infuriated Cow and knocked down
Horse wounded
Twenty-two Elephants bagged
Chapter XVIII
372
24
Hunting Trip to Mashuna Country continued
An Eland Bull
Hanyane River
Elephants
Hippopotami trapped in Pool
Game-nets
Notes on ``Fly''-bites
Bush Pigs
Sable Antelope Bull
Rhinoceros
Hunting in the Machabi Hills
Rhinoceros Cow
Elands
Male Sable Antelope pursued and attacked by Wild Dog
Nineteen Elephants shot
Oribi Antelope and its Distribution
Standard-winged Nightjar
Poor ``Bill'' killed by Crocodile
Rhinoceros and little Calf
Shoot Lioness at Viljoen's Camp
Christmas with Rev. W. Elliott
Chapter XIX
396
27
Visit the Transvaal
Start again for the Interior
Leave Bamangwato
Mahakabe Pan
Eland-shooting
Reach the Botletlie River
Scarcity of Water
Lion shot
Giraffes
Gemsbuck-hunting
Starving Bushmen
Gemsbuck shot
Leave the Botletlie
Reach Sode
Garra
Start for the Mababe
No Water
Sufferings of the Oxen
Abandon the Waggons
Reach the Mababe Plain
Water at last
Endurance of Oxen
Troop of Hyaenas
Sport with Lions
Arrival of Collison and French
Sad death of Matthew Clarkson
Chapter XX
423
24
Start Northwards
Elephants and Buffalo shot
Antelope found dead
Long Palaver with Mamele
Relics of a Mission Party
Shoot Lionees
Reach Site of Linyanti
Prayers for Good Luck
Find Skeleton of Kafir devoured by Lion
Buffaloes and Hippopotamus shot
Visit to the Grave of a Great Warrior
Vain Attempt to propitiate his Ghost
Seven Elephants killed, one wounded
French follows the wounded one with two Kafirs
His long Absence
Unsuccessful Attempt to follow him
Return of one of the Kafirs
His sad Story
French dead of Thirst
Impossibility of finding the Body
Attacks of Fever
Journey on foot to the Chobe
Four Lions drink by our Camp
Their terrific Roaring
Return to the Transvaal
Ague and Fever
Recovery
Last Start for the Far Interior
Chapter XXI
447
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Hippopotamus Paths
Rhinoceros
Bad Rifle
Waterbucks
Difficult Country
Sable Antelope
Native Villages
Bargaining
Lo Magondi
Native Weaving
Trip with Lo Magondi
The Lory
Pool of Hippos
Sea
Cow shooting
Matabele Superstition
Beaconsfield Cataracts
Shooting Buffalo
Lion at night
Chapter XXII
469
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Ancient track of Hippopotami
Starving Hippos to death
Elephant-hunt
Mountainous Country
Buffaloes
Rhinoceros
Paddling a dead Hippo
Nasty Accident
Lionesses
List of Game shot during the Year 1879
493
2
List of Game shot during the Year 1880
495
2
List of Game shot between the 1st of January 1877 and the 31st December 1880
497
2
Index
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