page_title: List of big-game hunters
section_title: Frederick Selous
hierarchical_section_title: List of big-game hunters / Africa / Frederick Selous
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: hunterswandering00selo (find matches) Title: A hunter's wanderings in Africa, being a narrative of nine years spent amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa, containing accounts of explorations beyond the Zambesi, on the river Chobe, and in the Matabele and Mashuna countries, with full notes upon the natural history and present distribution of all the large M__a_m_m_a_i_a Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors: Selous, Frederick Courteney, 1851-1917 Subjects: Hunting Mammals Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., limited New York, The Macmillan company Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: to a charge. However, a secondlater I fired, bringing him on to his head with his tailin the air, roaring tremendously. I then reloadedand mounted my good horse, that had stood motion-less beside me all this time, unmoved either by thereport of the rifle or the hoarse growling of the lion.His race was, however, run, for, after pushing him-self along the ground for about twenty yarcis by aseries of kicks from his hind legs, he rolled over onhis side, a sure sign with a lion that he is dead ordying. Riding alongside of him, I dismounted andadmired at my leisure one of the noblest prizes thathave as yet fallen to my rifle. In dying this lion madea most terrific noise. He kept filling his lungs withair, and then emitting roars which might have beenheard (and which the Kafirs did hear) miles away.He was an enormous brute—the largest I have yetkilled, and had a beautiful sleek coat and a lovelymane, long and flowing, black on the shoulders,and bright yellow on the cheeks. The measurements Text Appearing After Image: &gt;_^&lt;&lt;^ i\ &lt;f^ 1 ^, ^1^&#160;%^ U&lt;- i, Kez^: 1. 3^. X, XIII LOOK AT THE LIONS&#160;! 283 of his skin and carcase I have given in another place,I now halloed for the Kafirs, and at last saw tworunning towards me. Great was their surprise uponfinding me standing over the body of a magnificentlion, instead of, as they had expected, a wretchedtsessebe antelope, I was stooping over my prize,toying with the mane, when one of the boys, seizingme by the shoulder, cried excitedly, Look, look,sir&#160;! look at the lions&#160;! Hastily raising my eyes,and following the direction of his outstretched hand,a sight met my eyes that made my heart jump. Ata distance of not more than 250 yards from wherewe stood, three great lionesses were stalking slowlyacross a little open glade, walking in single file, onebehind another. At the heels of the hindmost ranthree little cubs, not much bigger than cats. As thegrass had been burnt off just here, 1 had a splendidview of their massive thick-set forms, but wasted Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: This list of famous big-game hunters includes sportsmen who gained fame largely or solely because of their big-game hunting exploits. The members of this list either hunted big game for sport, to advance the science of their day, or as professional hunters. It includes brief biographical details focusing on the type of game hunted, methods employed, and weapons used by those featured.
context_section_description: Frederick Courtney Selous (1851–1917) was an English born hunter, explorer, soldier and writer. Selous arrived in South Africa in 1870 determined to become an elephant hunter, hunting and trading predominantly in Mashonaland and Matabeleland until 1881, subsequently conducting several return hunting trips to Africa as well as hunting trips to Asia Minor, Wyoming, Transylvania, Canada, Sardinia, Kenya, the Yukon, Norway and the Sudan. Over the course of his life Selous shot 106 elephant, 177 buffalos, 31 lions, 23 white rhinoceros, 28 black rhinoceros, 67 giraffe and numerous antelope in Africa. Additionally, Selous shot moose, wapiti, caribou, wolf, lynx, deer and pronghorn in North America, red deer and wild goat in Asia Minor and red deer, reindeer, chamois and mouflon in Europe. Selous was provided with a large number of rifles by British gunmakers in the hope of his endorsement, but he makes mention of 2 Dutch made 4 bore muzzle loading 2 grove Roer rifles which weighed about 16 pounds (7.3 kg) and fired 4 oz balls driven 16 – 18 drams of powder, an 8 bore single-barrelled rifle, a 10 bore muzzle loading single-barrelled rifle, a 10 bore breech loading single-barrelled rifle, several 10 bore breech loading double rifles, a 12 bore double breech loading smooth bore made by W.W. Greener, at least one .461 No 1 Gibbs–Metford–Farquharson rifle by Gibbs of Bristol (a favourite), a single-barrelled .450 Black Powder Express by Henry of Edinburgh, a .375 Flanged Nitro Express falling block rifle and a .303 British falling block rifle both by Holland & Holland, a .303 British Lee–Metford rifle and a .256 Mannlicher falling block rifle.
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