This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Daring Buffalo Encounter and Zebra Extermination Tales
A detailed account recounts a violent near disaster with a wounded Cape buffalo as Mr. Willama and a Senegambian gun bearer ride at dusk, plus a Boer hunter's fatal clash in dense reeds. It extols Burchells zebra and warns of overhunting by Boers and settlers reducing numbers across Mashonaland to Zambesi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ainsley ‘Willama
Niger
Williams
Pony Bean
Williames
Mahand
Hiunter
Dutshman
Buffel-Vogel
Transvaal
Lake Ngami
Okananso
Uis
Africa
Cape
Ip Daye
Moasel Bawie
Burchell
Great Plains
Mashonaland
Grange River
Zambesi
Ngamiland
Great
Uganda
Orange River
Buchell
Alway
Zoological Society
Longmane
Berg