The-Wild-Sports-of-Southern-Africa--being-the-narrative-of-a-hunting--expedition-from-the-Cape-of--Good-Hope-t

Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris ( 1807 –1848) was an English military engineer, artist and hunter, one of the more notable of the early Victorian hunters to visit Southern Africa .The period between 1835 and 1860 may be said to have been the heyday of great game sportsmen in South Africa. The early English hunters, pushing their way into the Bechuana and Transvaal country, towards 1840, found before them a veldt virgin to the rifle, and absolutely teeming with wild animal life. They had a glorious innings, and their exploits have never been surpassed. Captain, afterwards Sir William, Cornwallis Harris, passing through what is now the Transvaal, in 1836-7, found troops of hundreds of elephants among the Cashan Mountains—a range now much better known as the Magaliesberg, in the near neighbourhood of Pretoria—and enjoyed fine sport with them. Cornwallis Harris may be looked upon as the forerunner of British sportsmen in the countries beyond the Val and Orange. He wrote a celebrated book, which attracted much notice, and Oswell, Vardon, Gordon Cumming, and others undoubtedly fell beneath the glamour of his glowing descriptions, and followed keenly in his footsteps. When Cornwallis Harris trekked south, he encountered, in the country now familiar as the Orange River Colony, then a wilderness tenanted only by vast multitudes of wild game.

Contents
CHAPTER I.
Voyage from India to the Cape of Good Hope, and thence to Algoa Bay
CHAPTER II.
Journey from Port Elizabeth to Graham's Town
CHAPTER III.
Journey from Graham's Town to Graaff Reinet
CHAPTER IV.
Graaff Reinet—and final preparations for our Journey into the Interior
CHAPTER V.
From Graaff Reinet, by the Snowy Mountains, to the Borders of the Colony
CHAPTER VI.
From the Boundary of the Colony, across the Great Orange River, to Kuruman
CHAPTER VII.
From Kuruman to Little Chooi
CHAPTER VIII.
From Little Chooi to the Meritsane River
CHAPTER IX.
Hunting at Meritsane
CHAPTER X.
From Meritsane to Mimori, and Hunting on the Molopo
CHAPTER XI.
Arrival at Mosega, the Capital of the Chief Moselekatse
CHAPTER XII.
History of Chaka, surnamed "the Bloody"
CHAPTER XIII.
History of Chaka, concluded
CHAPTER XIV.
From Mosega to the Kurrichane Mountains
CHAPTER XV.
Arrival at Kapain, and visit from the Chief Moselekatse
CHAPTER XVI.
Residence at Kapain
CHAPTER XVII.
Residence at Kapain, continued
CHAPTER XVIII.
Departure from Kapain, and arrival at the Mariqua River
CHAPTER XIX.
From the Mariqua River to Tolaan, the residence of the heir apparent
CHAPTER XX.
The Matabili described—Arrival at the River Simalakate
CHAPTER XXI.
Meeting with Kalipi's Commando, and arrival at the Cashan Mountains
CHAPTER XXII.
Rhinoceros and Wild Buffalo Hunting along the Cashan Mountains
CHAPTER XXIII.
Elephant Hunting in the Cashan Mountains
CHAPTER XXIV.
Elephant Hunting, continued—and Lion shooting from the waggons
CHAPTER XXV.
Hippopotamus Shooting—and Hunting in the Valley of the Limpopo
CHAPTER XXVI.
Excursion to the eastward of the Limpopo—and Journey to the northward across the Cashan Mountains
CHAPTER XXVII.
Hunting the Camclopard, or Giraffe
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Return to the southward from the Tropic of Capricorn
CHAPTER XXIX.
Interview with Um'Nombate, and Journey through the Cashan Mountains to the south-eastward
CHAPTER XXX.
Discovery of a new Antelope, and final departure from the Cashan Mountains towards the River Vaal .
CHAPTER XXXI.
Desertion of our Escort, and arrival at the River Vaal
CHAPTER XXXII.
Exit from Moselekatse's Dominions, and passage across Nama-Hari
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Three days' solitary wanderings in the wilderness
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Journey resumed, to the 'Gy Koup, or Vet Riviere of the Emigrants
CHAPTER XXXV.
Plundered by Bushman Hordes, and left a wreck in the desert

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