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Identifier: naturalhistory07ameruoft (find matches)
Title: Natural history
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hear them roaring longbefore dark, and they kept up their noise all night. We had to keep big-fires going to keep them away. Early next morning a Dutch transportrider came to my camp and asked me to assist him in hunting some lionswhich had killed five of his oxen. That night we took up the spoor andafter following it for four miles, we came upon one lion, one lioness andtwo cubs. We got the lion and both cubs, but the lioness, althoughbadly wounded, got away into the tall grass. We did not go after her, asit is a very dangerous undertaking to follow up a wounded lion, a thingthat only inexperienced hunters will do, as there is only one chance inten of getting away alive. After removing and caring for the skins, weproceeded on our journey, but since we had many rapids to cross, ourprogress was very slow. We reached more rapids next day about noon;here we had to take everything out of the boats and pull them overland,a distance of 300 yards. This took us until 4 oclock, and we pitched
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SOU TH-C EN Til. II. A FRICAN COLLEi TION 75 camp some four miles further up the River that night. On my way to tins camp I collected many stone implements. We reached Lialni late in the afternoon of Thursday, August 28,having been one month in covering the 500 miles from Victoria Falls.During my stay at Lialui from August 2S to September 22, I was withthe king daily and by his influence secured many fiue specimens. All the collections made by Mr. Douglas are now in the Museum.He has lived in South Africa for about twenty years and is not onlyfamiliar with the natives but also able to speak some of their languages.With the collection are numerous notes and other information of con-siderable ethnological value. The larger part of the collection is fromBarotseland. The Barotse kingdom extends from the vicinity of Victoria Fallson the Zambezi to the Congo Free State and eastward to the land ofthe Bashukulombwe, one of the recent conquests of the present king.It is now in control of King

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