A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

Young hunters - the children of Boer Hendrik van Bloom - continue their journey through South Africa. Here they meet various wild animals.

Table of Content

Chapter 1 The Camp of the Young Yägers

Chapter 2 Swartboy the Bushman and Congo the Kaffir

Chapter 3 How Congo Crossed a “Drift”

Chapter 4  A Brace of “Black Manes”

Chapter 5 Lions Stalking the Gemsbok

Chapter 6 An Angry Lioness

Chapter 7 How Congo the Kaffir killed a Lioness

Chapter 8 A Short Chat about Lions

Chapter 9 The Unicorn

Chapter 10 The Camel-Birds

Chapter 11 The Smallest of Foxes

Chapter 12 The Wingless Birds

Chapter 13 The Fennec and the Ostrich-Eggs

Chapter 14 The Blauw-Boks

Chapter 15 A Brush after the Blue-Bucks

Chapter 16 Groot Willem gets a Tumble

Chapter 17 A Tough Struggle

Chapter 18 The Arrow-Poison

Chapter 19 Decoying the Old Cock

Chapter 20 A Brush with the Brindled Gnoo

Chapter 21 A Battle with a Borelé

Chapter 22 The Interrupted Breakfast

Chapter 23 The Ostrich “Surround”

Chapter 24 The Odd Cock

Chapter 25 Blesboks and Bonteboks

Chapter 26 Stalking the Blesboks

Chapter 27 Driving the Blesboks

Chapter 28 Hendrik’s Hard Gallop

Chapter 29 Hendrik Chased by the Keitloa

Chapter 30 Hendrik in a State of Siege

Chapter 31 A Singular Escape

Chapter 32 A Vast Herd of Antelopes

Chapter 33 The Lone Mountain

Chapter 34 The Approach to the Lone Mountain

Chapter 35 The Little Hyrax

Chapter 36 The Klipspringers

Chapter 37 Hunting the Klipspringer

Chapter 38 Bold Birds

Chapter 39 The Waterbuck

Chapter 40 The Ravenous Reptile

Chapter 41 The Guinea-Hens

Chapter 42 Rooyebok

Chapter 43 Four-Footed Hunters

Chapter 44 “Widow-Birds”

Chapter 45 The Pique-Boeufs

Chapter 46 Charged by “Muchochos”

Chapter 47 A Ride upon a Rhinoceros

Chapter 48 Jan and the Koorhaans

Chapter 49 Groot Willem and the Python

Chapter 50 Groot Willem’s Great Struggle with the Snake

Chapter 51 The Honey-Guide and Honey-Eater

Chapter 52 Conclusion