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Hunting.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Published in the Illinois State Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, January 18, 1850

A Port Natal [South Africa] paper, in noticing the return of Capt. Faddy and some other sportsmen, from a hunting expedition in the interior, says that the list of game killed by them included one hundred and thirty-five elephants, seventeen rhinoceros, a lion, a hippopotamus, a leopard and a wolf, besides 42 buffaloes, 7 wild […]

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Hippopotamus.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, June 12, 1845

We have now in this city, and for the first time, at least in many years, a fine specimen of this interesting animal. It was captured by a boat’s crew from a New Bedford vessel at the mouth of a river in Africa. There are two in the Paris Museum, but we believe none like […]

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A Highland Sportsman In Africa.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 8, 1848

The Cape Frontier Times gives the following account of a sporting expedition of eleven months duration, the here of which is Mr. Ruallyn Cumming, second son of Sir William Gordon Cumming Bart., of Altyre, who a few years ago, was the foremost sportsman in the north of Ireland: “In this expedition it is said he […]

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