Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

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 has penetrated many hundred miles beyond the farthest point ever reached by any white man. He shot forty-three elephants, three of which only were females. Many of the males carried tusks of enormous size, measuring seven feet in length, and sometimes weighing 100 pounds each. Sixty Hippopotami, the finest of the troops to which they belonged having been singled out for slaughter. Such is the abundance of this game, that, with his rifle, he might have killed two hundred of them.
The rhinoceros, buffalo, cameleopard, eland, gemsbok, rean antelope, waterbuck, hartebeast, black and blue; whitebeast, koodoo, zebra, rietbok, klipspringer, &c. were found by him in such abundance that he rarely expended his shot upon them except when in want of flesh, or to get their heads as specimens, to grace their collection of sporting trophies, which is described as being now so extensive as almost to require a small ship to send home. He is said to have discovered an entirely new sort of antelope, unknown not only to science, but even to the native tribes living under the tropics. It is a very beautiful species, and with much time and difficulty, he procured twenty-two specimens, both male and female. His losses have unfortunately counterbalanced the excellence of his sport. He lost all his horses, [15,] all his oxen, [30,] and all his dogs, [20,] and his best wagon driver. His horses were killed either by lions or horse sickness, and the fly called tyetse. All his oxen were killed by this insect. His dogs were killed, some by the panther, crocodile and different kinds of game. The wagon driver was carried off on a dark and cloudy evening by a monster lion, which Mr. Cumming shot the next day.