Catalogue of hunting trophies, native arms, and costumes, from the far interior of South Africa, etc / [R. Gordon-Cumming].

Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming

Date:: [1850]

Credit: Catalogue of hunting trophies, native arms, and costumes, from the far interior of South Africa, etc / [R. Gordon-Cumming]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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144 Skull of a Lioness attacked in an open plain, and killed after fearfully lacerating the haunches of the Sportsmen’s favourite horse Colcsburg 145 Skull of the Leopard, that cruelly maimed an English gentleman, a companion of Mr. Gumming 146 Skull of a female Buffalo. One of four killed in one night. Three of these were partially devoured by Lions before day broke, within a few yards of the Hunter and his Kaffir attendant. 147 Skull of Hippopotamus ; one of seven first-rate Hip¬ popotami killed in the Limpopo in one day, out of a herd of upwards of forty. 148 Skull of Hippopotamus killed after a personal conflict in the waters of the Limpopo 149 Horn of Rhinoceros, shot on the same night with a Giraffe and an old Bull Elephant at the Fountain of Pepe. 150 The three horns of a triple horned Black Rhinoceros A remarkably rare specimen. 151 Ditto. 152 Horn of a Rhinoceros which fell after a very long con¬ test, pierced with twenty-four Balls; the chase having commenced at the fountain of Mang- maluki

Catalogue of hunting trophies, native arms, and costumes, from the far interior of South Africa, etc / [R. Gordon-Cumming].

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