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Gun and camera in southern Africa : a year of wanderings in Bechuanaland, the Kalahari Desert, and the Lake River country, Ngamiland with notes on colonisation, natives, natural history and sport
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- Creator
- by H. Anderson Bryden ... ; with numerous illustrations and a map
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- English
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- London : Edward Stanford, 1893
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- xiv, 544 pages, 35 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map (folded) ; 23 cm
- OCLC
- ocm02438154
- Includes index.
- First days in Bechuanaland -- Four months in Barolong huts -- Natural history notes -- A day with the shot guns -- British Bechuanaland and its future -- The Kalahari and its serfs -- A trek to Morokweng, south Kalahari -- A trip to Marico, north-west Transvaal -- Our steeplechases -- A waggon journey through the protectorate -- Khama and his country -- Across the Kalahari Desert to the Botletli River, Ngamiland -- Giraffe hunting -- The giraffe at home -- Moonlight trekking ; My hunter's yarn -- Sport and natural history on the Botletli -- Notes on the pursuit of game -- The waterway and waterfowl of the Botletli -- Our return through the thirstland ; Eland hunting -- Down country -- Fishing in Bechuanaland -- The game-birds of Bechuanaland -- Present distribution of the large game of Bechuanaland, Ngamiland, and the Kalahari -- Waggon life and camp requisites