The Young Yagers: A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa
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Reid Mayne. The Young Yagers: A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa
Chapter One. The Camp of the Young Yägers
Chapter Two. Swartboy the Bushman and Congo the Kaffir
Chapter Three. How Congo Crossed a “Drift.”
Chapter Four. A Brace of “Black Manes.”
Chapter Five. Lions Stalking the Gemsbok
Chapter Six. An Angry Lioness
Chapter Seven. How Congo the Kaffir killed a Lioness
Chapter Eight. A Short Chat about Lions
Chapter Nine. The Unicorn
Chapter Ten. The Camel-Birds
Chapter Eleven. The Smallest of Foxes
Chapter Twelve. The Wingless Birds
Chapter Thirteen. The Fennec and the Ostrich-Eggs
Chapter Fourteen. The Blauw-Boks
Chapter Fifteen. A Brush after the Blue-Bucks
Chapter Sixteen. Groot Willem gets a Tumble
Chapter Seventeen. A Tough Struggle
Chapter Eighteen. The Arrow-Poison
Chapter Nineteen. Decoying the Old Cock
Chapter Twenty. A Brush with the Brindled Gnoo
Chapter Twenty One. A Battle with a Borelé
Chapter Twenty Two. The Interrupted Breakfast
Chapter Twenty Three. The Ostrich “Surround.”
Chapter Twenty Four. The Odd Cock
Chapter Twenty Five. Blesboks and Bonteboks
Chapter Twenty Six. Stalking the Blesboks
Chapter Twenty Seven. Driving the Blesboks
Chapter Twenty Eight. Hendrik’s Hard Gallop
Chapter Twenty Nine. Hendrik Chased by the Keitloa
Chapter Thirty. Hendrik in a State of Siege
Chapter Thirty One. A Singular Escape
Chapter Thirty Two. A Vast Herd of Antelopes
Chapter Thirty Three. The Lone Mountain
Chapter Thirty Four. The Approach to the Lone Mountain
Chapter Thirty Five. The Little Hyrax
Chapter Thirty Six. The Klipspringers
Chapter Thirty Seven. Hunting the Klipspringer
Chapter Thirty Eight. Bold Birds
Chapter Thirty Nine. The Waterbuck
Chapter Forty. The Ravenous Reptile
Chapter Forty One. The Guinea-Hens
Chapter Forty Two. Rooyebok
Chapter Forty Three. Four-Footed Hunters
Chapter Forty Four “Widow-Birds.”
Chapter Forty Five. The Pique-Boeufs
Chapter Forty Six. Charged by “Muchochos.”
Chapter Forty Seven. A Ride upon a Rhinoceros
Chapter Forty Eight. Jan and the Koorhaans
Chapter Forty Nine. Groot Willem and the Python
Chapter Fifty. Groot Willem’s Great Struggle with the Snake
Chapter Fifty One. The Honey-Guide and Honey-Eater
Chapter Fifty Two. Conclusion
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I have said that the young yägers were encamped on the southern bank of the Great Orange River. What were they doing there? The spot they occupied was many a long day’s journey from their home in the Graaf Reinet, and many a day’s journey beyond the frontier of the Cape Colony. There were no settlements near. No white men ever wandered so far, except an occasional “smouse,” or trader – a class of men who extend their bartering expeditions almost to the central parts of the African Continent. Sometimes, too, the “trek-boor,” or nomade grazier, may have driven his flocks to this remote place, but for all that it could not be considered a settled country. It was still a wilderness.
And what were the young Von Blooms and Van Wyks doing in the wilderness? Jäging to be sure, and nothing else, – they were simply out on a hunting expedition.
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The young yägers had arrived on the southern bank of the Orange River, opposite to a well-known “drift,” or crossing-place. There chanced to be a freshet in the river; and they had encamped, and were waiting until the water should fall and the ford become passable.
“Mynheeren, you drift may cross – now.”
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