Adventures on the Great Hunting-grounds of the World

Africa animal approach attack ball banks bear beast beat retreat bird black rhinoceros blow boat body bushes carried caymans Chaillu companions cries crocodile danger dead distance dogs Duke Edouard Verreaux eggs elephant encounter enemy escape eyes fear feet fell female fired forest frightful gavial giraffe gorilla grizzly bear hand head heard herd hippopotamus horse Hottentots hunt hunters jaws jellab Khartoum killed Knysna Lacépède Laos legs lion Livingstone looking LOUIS VIARDOT male monster mother mufflons musk ox natives neck negroes night Nile noise once ostrich passed perceived pinchaque prey pursued reach returned rhinoceros river roar round rushed says seen seized shore shot shouting side sight sometimes soon South Africa Sparrman species stood suddenly tapir teeth terrible thicket threw tiger took traveller tree trunk turned Vaillant walk whilst white rhinoceros WONDERS wood wounded yards young