 | Haywood, C.W. 1927 To the mysterious Lorian swamp: an adventure & arduous journey of exploration through the vast waterless tracts of unknown Jubaland. London, Seeley, Service and Co, pp. 1-275 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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| I got the surprise of my life. There, facing slightly away from me, and only a hundred yards off, stood a big bull rhinoceros. He was so close that I could see all the creases in his thick hide, the tufts of hair sticking out of his piggy ears, and the whitish marks where he had rubbed himself a... |
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| Bagshawe, F.J. 1925 The peoples of the Happy Valley (East Africa): the aboriginal races of Kondoa Irangi, part II. Journal of the Royal African Society 24 (94): 117-130 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Tanzania
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Black Rhino
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| Kangeju (or Kindiga) tribe, living near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania - (The arrows to shoot game are poisoned). The poison used is an alkaloid obtained from a plant or tree of the genus Strophanthus. - The poison is fatal to all animals, even elephants and rhinoceros succumbing to it if the arrow can ... |
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| Champion de Crespigny, C. 1925 Forty years of a sportman's life: with two additional chapters covering the period 1910-1924. London, Mills & Boon, pp. 1-310 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa - Kenya
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Black Rhino
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| Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 |
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Asia - South East Asia - Myanmar (Burma)
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Asian Rhino Species
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| Vernay Expedition. The Governor of Burma, Sir Harry Butler has given special permission to Mr Arthur S. Vernay, who is now collecting for the American Museum in Burma and Siam to take specimens for that institution. If Mr Vernay can get these rhino specimens, he will be lucky. |
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| Faunthorpe, J.C. 1924 Jungle life in India, Burma, and Nepal: some notes on the Faunthorpe-Vernay Expedition of 1923. Natural History 24 (2): 174-198, figs. 1-20, map 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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| Vernay stalked her on foot and shot her through the neck, at a range of about twenty yards, killing her with one bullet. The neck shot is the most deadly for rhino, aim being taken between the deep neck creases, which are such a marked feature of this curious animal, about two-thirds of the way ... |
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| Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 |
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| Hunt by Prince of Wales in Jan. 1907 - 28 rhinos were bagged, 14 male and 14 female. |
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| Ellison, B.C. 1922 HRH The Prince of Wales' shoots in India in 1921 and 1922 - part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 28 (3): 675-697, pls. 1-9, map 1, table 1 |
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Asia - South Asia - Nepal
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| As regards shooting rhino in Nepal the importance of a vital shot has been already commented upon. Selous, in his ' Hunters Wanderings in Africa' in writing about rhino says :-' As with elephants it is very unsatisfactory work following up a wounded rhino as they do not go and lie down but walk ... |
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| Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa
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African Rhino Species
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| I find in my Diary for 5th November, 1907, 'Came near to Maboloni Hill. Saw seven rhino grazing near the hill and steered the caravan safely past, leaving four about a hundred yards up wind and three about four hundred yards down wind.' The next day I find 'Met twelve rhino all in o... |
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| Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 |
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Africa - Eastern Africa
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African Rhino Species
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| In 1905 I was looking for elephant in the vicinity of Fort Manning. I had no thought of rhino, but was anxious to shoot the elephant on my new license, as the old one had just expired. I was following an old elephant track across a dambo, or open grassy flat, when I met a fresh spoor crossing a... |
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| Stigand, C.H. 1913 Hunting the elephant in Africa and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings. London, MacMillan, pp. i-xv, 1-379 |
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Africa - Southern Africa - Zambia
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Black Rhino
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| Whilst hunting near Lake Bangweolo I followed one for the greater part of the day, and finally crept up, closely followed by the faithful Matola, within five yards of where he lay, heavily breathing in thick grass. Even then it was so thick that I could not see him properly, and bungled the shot... |
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