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HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



THE GNOO. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



HUNTING THE GNOO. 



MONG modern hunters Mr. Roualeyi 

 Gordon Gumming deserves the high- 

 est rank. He has just published a 

 work entitled " Five years of a 

 Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of 

 South Africa," which gives the most 

 thrilling and entertaining narratives 

 ef his hunting the animals of that 

 region, such as the Lion, Elephant 

 Giraffe, Rh : noceros, Hippopotamus 

 and the various kinds of antelopes with which the country abounds 

 To indulge in his favorite pursuit without restraint he gave 

 up his commission in the British army, and bought a train of 

 wagons at one of the towns near the Cape of Good Hope, 



