With Flashlight and Rifle Volume 2; A Record of Hunting Adventures and of Studies in Wildlife in Equatorial East-Africa - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...strongholds with a clear whistle of warning, soon to emerge again on a fresh post of observation, to watch the disturber of their mountain peace. By a curious chapter of accidents my photographs of these lovely animals were all damaged except a few which may serve to give some idea of the pretty creatures. To-day the klipspringers are particularly shy, and elude me continually in the dry grass. Only one buck, in its flight from my men mounting up from below, suddenly comes my way, and, while it peers down on me a moment from its rock, gives me the chance of a shot. My bullet hits it at a distance of almost two hundred yards across the valley. I send two trusty carriers back into the camp with the booty; and there the skin has to be prepared with the greatest care, for the hairs grow so loosely that, with the least inattention, they are sure to come out. Now we have to work up the mountain-slope, often painfully in the burning sun, on hands and feet. The rocks are already quite hot. Lizards and geckos eye us curiously, instantly disappearing in the grass or in holes. The higher we climb the more plants and grasses we find that are not entirely withered by the sun. The eye f the hunter soon perceives among the rocks great accumulations of dun« the nature of which tells of the presence of numerous rock-badgers. And, in truth, this mountain wilderness is thickly inhabited by those miniature hoofed animals of which the Bible speaks, and which zoology has, oddly enough, to class as relatives of the might)-rhinoceros.... Fate has arranged things very differently for these incongruous cousins. Thanks to their size and strength, the rhinoceroses ruled their broad lands for hundreds and thousands of years; no foe of equal girth challenged them in the struggle fo...
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